Praveen is Co-Founder and VP Engineering at Valtix. Prior to co-founding Valtix, he was an engineer at Google Cloud Platform working on GCP Networking. He previously worked at Andiamo System (acquired by Cisco) before joining as an early employee at BloomReach (late-stage startup) and then LaserLike (acquired by Apple). In the first 10 years of his career, Praveen worked on data center technologies working on firewalls, network proxies, storage networking, encryption of data at rest and in transit. In the past 10 years, Praveen has been exclusively building on top of public clouds to build large-scale applications and data infrastructure. He is an inventor in 10 patents related to networking, security, and data infrastructure. Praveen holds an M.S in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.