Sumanth M. Sathyanarayana is a Senior Research Engineer working at Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) in MountainView, CA. He is working on Openstack, SDN and IoT at T-Labs. Prior to joining T-Labs, he was working as a SDN Software Design Engineer at Hewlett Packard where he was developing HP’s Core SDN Controller focusing on the HA, Persistence and Backup & Restore aspects of the Controller.
Sumanth worked at ON.Lab developing Flowvisor, the open-sourced network hypervisor tool and was responsible for the development and release of FlowVisor 1.2 and 1.4. He has also worked at Nokia Siemens Networks, Bangalore developing the Integrity Checking components of Home Location Register in Telecommunication Networks. His research mainly focuses on the design and implementation of SDN and Advanced Networking Systems. He received his Masters Degree from the University of Pennsylvania.