Management team
Team Parallocity brings together a talented group of serial entrepreneurs, research scientists, software engineers, and business folks.
Members of the team
Shekhar Ambe - Founding CEO/ Chief Development officer
Shekhar Ambe brings with him 20 plus years of experience in architecture, software development and management. He was the co-founder and CTO of Sinett. Prior to Sinett, he was a founding member of Maverick Networks, a start-up company focused on enterprise networking products, which was acquired by Broadcom Corporation. Post acquisition, he led the team of architects and was responsible for the architecture of Enterprise Switching Products at Broadcom. Prior to his tenure at Maverick/Broadcom, he was a founder of ProLan Systems, a consulting firm specializing in embedded and networking systems. He has filed for over 70 patents, 56 of which are granted. Shekhar holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a master's degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Jeff Twombly - Vice President, World-wide Sales and Business Development
With over 23 years of experience in the technology sector, Jeff has extensive knowledge in marketing & selling complex, high value based solutions to networking, telecommunications, computing, and consumer OEMs. Prior to joining Parallocity, Jeff was president of AnchorPointe Sales, a world-class independent sales organization that he co-founded in 2006. From 2004 to 2006 Jeff was vice president of sales at SiNett Corporation. From 2000 to 2004 Jeff held positions of vice president of sales and marketing at Cavium Networks where he was instrumental in launching the company in the secure communications infrastructure space. Prior to Cavium, Jeff held various sales management and leadership positions during his time at Texas Instruments, Lattice Semiconductor, Norcomp, and Fast-Chip. Jeff holds a BSEE from University of New Hampshire.
Dr. Koushik Sen - Co-founder
Dr. Koushik Sen is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his work on directed automated random testing and concolic testing. His paper on concolic testing won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ESEC/FSE ’05. He received the C.L. and Jane W-S. Liu Award in 2004 for exceptional research promise, the C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Award in 2005, and the David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2007 from the UIUC Department of Computer Science. He has received an NSF CAREER Award in 2008. He holds a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and M.S. and Ph.D. in CS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. R. K. Kulkarni - Co-founder and Head of India Operations
Dr. R. K. Kulkarni brings with him 20 plus years of experience in compilers, testing tools, software development and management. He was the founder and CEO of Synergy InfoTech which got acquired by Sonim Technologies. He built and led a strong team of engineers offering product development services to leading companies in US and Europe. Dr. Kulkarni holds a B.E. degree from UVCE, Bangalore, M.Tech degree in CS from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and Ph.D. in CS from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.