Kannan Kothandaraman

Kannan Kothandaraman is the Co-Founder and CEO at Selector AI. Kannan was previously the Vice President of Product Line Management at Juniper Networks from March 2006 to June 2019, and was responsible for Juniper's OS & software, edge/data center routing, and NFV. Before that, they were a Senior Software Engineer at Juniper Networks from January 2000 to December 2006, and was the lead software engineer for the M120 – Juniper’s first fully redundant edge routing platform. Kannan has also worked on other projects such as Lead software engineer for intelligent edge queuing and channelization interfaces, Frame Relay, Multilink L2 protocols, 10GE, and High-Availability features. Prior to that, they worked as a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems from January 1998 to December 2000.

Kannan Kothandaraman received their BS in Computer Science from Louisiana State University and their MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Some direct reports include Nitin Kumar - Co-Founder & CTO, Sirish Kondi - Founding Engineer, and Rudra Rugge - VP, Engineering.