Veniamin Bourakov

Veniamin Bourakov has a strong background in engineering and software development, with extensive experience working for various companies. Veniamin is currently employed at doc.ai as a Sr Principal Engineer, where they are responsible for building a cloud-native zero-trust service mesh infrastructure platform to support privacy preserving AI technologies in the medical research field. Their work involves creating a lightweight mesh that enables distributed application boundaries and relies on SPIFFE-based digital workload identities. The mesh is capable of spanning across different cloud providers and integrates with existing 3rd party mesh deployments. Prior to this role, they were self-employed from July 2018 to October 2019.

Before joining doc.ai, Veniamin worked at Gigamon, LLC from October 2011 to July 2018 as a Product Line Architect / Sr. Principal Engineer. Here, they were the founding engineer of the Network Management branch and played a crucial role in developing and evolving the product line of the Fabric Manager, which is the management and control tier for the Gigamon Visibility Fabric solution. Veniamin led a distributed team through the expansion phases of the Fabric Manager, including implementation on private and public clouds.

Veniamin also held the position of Product Architect at Avaya from May 2007 to September 2011. Prior to that, they worked as a Sr. Software Engineer at Caymas Systems from October 2005 to March 2007 and as a Sr. Software Engineer / Team Lead at Nortel Networks from November 2000 to October 2005.

Overall, Veniamin Bourakov has a proven track record in engineering and software development, specializing in network management, product architecture, and cloud-based solutions.

Veniamin Bourakov has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (BS) from the University of South Carolina. Veniamin later pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, which they completed in 2004.