Nagendra Siravara

Nagendra Siravara has over 20 years of experience in software engineering. Nagendra began their career in 2000 as the CTO/VP Engineering at Sentica Corporation, a start up funded by Intel Capital. Nagendra then joined Navin Communications, Inc. in 2002 as the CTO/VP Engineering, where they were responsible for building a carrier grade Value Added Services (VAS) platform deployed across multiple mobile carrier networks globally. In 2005, they moved to VeriSign as the Director of India Development Center, where they set up VeriSign's India Center from scratch that grew to 300+. From 2008 to 2010, they were the VP Engineering at VuCast Media Inc, where they were responsible for leading the technology road map, development, and deployment for a highly secure, intrusion proof content delivery system. Nagendra then moved to Microsoft in 2010 as the Principal Director Engineering, where they were responsible for developing and operating mission critical cloud based information protection, archiving, e-discovery search and compliance services for Fortune 500 customers worldwide. In 2014, they joined CipherCloud as the Vice President Engineering and then moved to Intertrust in 2016 as the VP of Engineering. Nagendra is currently the Vice President Of Software Engineering at NextNav.

Nagendra Siravara completed their Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University. Nagendra then went on to pursue a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).