Rajesh Balay

Rajesh Balay is the Director of Systems & Technology at Ericsson, where they focus on SDN product development and cloud infrastructure for service providers. Previously, Rajesh held roles as a Strategic Product Manager and General Manager at Ericsson, overseeing packet gateway products and systems technology. They also worked as a Senior Product Manager at Redback Networks, and a Principal Engineer at CoSine Communications and Torrent Networks. Rajesh began their career as a Senior Software Engineer in IBM's Networking Hardware Division. They earned a PhD in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and hold two additional degrees in the field.