Bappa Sinha

Bappa is responsible for all technology and product decisions at Virtunet Systems and leads Virtunet’s engineering and product teams. Bappa has successfully delivered VirtuCache and VirtuStor’s market leading features, keeping far ahead of the much larger competitors, with a lean and talented engineering team.

Bappa is an expert in Linux and VMware kernel with a strong background in distributed systems, scale out clustering, networking & storage stacks in VMware and Linux. Bappa is responsible for patent pending work at Virtunet in the areas of block level IO caching for virtualized environments without prior space reservation; cache index state replication for dirty writes; and adaptive write back throttling to ensure synchronization of cache with datastore.

Prior to Virtunet, Bappa has held architecture and engineering leadership roles in networking companies like Omnia (bought by Ciena), Lucent, and Dilithium Networks. He was most recently VP Engineering at iTaas, responsible for video gateway software. Bappa has co-authored multiple patents in the areas of ATM VP switched SONET rings.

Bappa has a MS in Computer Science from Arizona State University and BTech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay.