Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja

CTO & Vice President at Pure Storage

San Jose, California, United States

About Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja

Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja is CTO & Vice President at Pure Storage. Location: San Jose, California, United States.

Conceived, invented, brought to market and successfully exited 4 startups. My passion is identifying change, the opportunity that is thus created, inventing and bringing solutions to market that address the needs of the markets impacted by those shifts. - 71 Issued Patents - 6th Degree Blackbelt in TaeKwonDo. An avid practitioner of QiGong, weight training and running. - An ardent student of SunTzu's Art Of War. - ShieldX Networks Founding CEO, Chief R&D Officer, Board Chairman. Acquired by Fortinet. A Multi-cloud elastically scaling containerized microservices based network security platform for segmentation, micro segmentation and lateral threat prevention in VmWare, AWS, Azure and Kubernetes. Allowing enterprises to protect their multi-cloud workloads and applications no matter where they are deployed. - Reconnex Corp. Founding CTO. Acquired by McAfee. The leading Network Data Loss Prevention product which consistently placed a leader in the DLP Gartner magic quadrant. Help enterprises protect against loss of regulatory data and intellectual property. - WebStacks Inc. Founding CEO. Acquired by Extreme Networks. Industry's first hardware & FPGA based multi-gbps server load balancing and application traffic routing solution allowing enterprises to manage application traffic at scale. - Internet Junction. Founding CTO. Acquired by Cisco Systems. A unique multi-protocol translation gateway to interconnect disparate transport protocols. Enabling enterprises to use TPC/IP applications on non TCP networks.

Skills

  • Networking
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • DLP

Additional experience

  • Chairman Of The Board & Chief R&D Officer

    ShieldX Networks

    August 2019 – March 2021

Education

  • MS & Ph.D. Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
  • BSc Electronics, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology