Bikash Koley
Vice President, Global Networking, Google
About the Speaker
Bikash is currently the Vice President of Global Networking at Google. Bikash’s team is responsible for design, build and operation of Google’s massive global network that every Google service relies upon.
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Prior to Google, Bikash was the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Juniper Networks. In this role, Bikash charted Juniper’s technology strategy and led the execution of the company’s critical technology innovations. Specifically, Bikash was responsible for Juniper’s telco cloud and virtualization, multicloud enterprise datacenter and software defined enterprise networking products and technologies.
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Prior to Juniper, Bikash spent close to ten years at Google, where he was a Distinguished Engineer and the Head of Network Architecture, Engineering and Planning. Prior to Google, Bikash was the CTO of Qstreams Networks, a company he co-founded. He also spent several years at Ciena Corporation in various technical roles developing DWDM and Ethernet technologies.
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He is an industry-leading expert on network function virtualization, intent driven networking (IDN), multicloud networking, warehouse-scale computing, and hyperscale network infrastructures.
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Bikash received a BTech from IIT, India; and MS and PhD degrees from the University of
Maryland at College Park, all in Electrical Engineering.
