Our team

Rochan Sankar

Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder

Rochan is founder, President and CEO of Enfabrica responsible for the company's strategic/product vision while driving all facets of operational, engineering, and business execution excellence and growth. Prior to founding Enfabrica, he was Senior Director at Broadcom leading their Data Center Ethernet switching business, where he defined and brought to market four generations of Tomahawk and Trident chips and drove industry-wide adoption of foundational cloud networking technologies. He is a 25-year industry veteran with prior roles in product management, chip architecture, and engineering across startup and public semiconductor companies.

Rochan holds a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Wharton School, and has 6 issued patents.

Shrijeet Mukherjee

Chief Development Officer, Co-Founder

Shrijeet is co-founder and Chief Development Officer of Enfabrica, where he comprehensively defines and drives the architecture, engineering and innovation pipeline across software, hardware, and systems. Prior to founding Enfabrica, he was an architect in Google's network infrastructure group. Previously he was VP Engineering at Cumulus building software to revolutionize Open Networking. At Cisco UCS he was Director of Architecture and Software working on the NIC and virtualization systems later known as DPUs. At SGI, he was part of the Advanced Graphics team that invented floating point framebuffers and programmable shaders that underpin today's GPUs and accelerators.

Shrijeet is on the Linux NetDev Society Board of Directors and has over 40 patents. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

Carlo Contavalli

Vice-President, Software Engineering

Carlo is VP of Software Engineering at Enfabrica, responsible for the development, execution, and roadmap of Enfabrica's customer-facing system software stack as well as directing internal-facing software infrastructure and IT initiatives. Previously, he was Senior Director in the CTO Office of Juniper Networks and before that a key member of Google's Network Infrastructure team. During his 12 years at Google, he bootstrapped and ran multiple host network processing and SDN projects that became key building blocks in Google Cloud Platform and Google's CDN, and ran the teams responsible for the host networking stack running on most of Google's server fleet. Carlo holds multiple patents, while papers on the work of his teams have been published at SIGCOMM, SOSP, and NSDI.

Mike Jorda

Vice-President, Silicon Engineering

Mike is VP of Silicon Engineering responsible for managing all aspects and disciplines of high-performance networking silicon development at Enfabrica. Previously, Mike was at Broadcom for over 22 years. As Senior Director of Engineering, Mike led and/or contributed to the successful design, verification, tapeout, and post-silicon deployment of over 20 high-volume Ethernet networking chips - from the very first StrataXGS switches to the most recent Tomahawk products - managing large engineering teams across multiple geographies and functional disciplines. He joined Broadcom through the acquisition of startup Maverick Networks. He started his career at Chromatic Research, building VLIW processors for graphics and multimedia applications.

Mike holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois and has four issued patents.

Mike Goldflam

Vice-President, Systems Engineering and Test

Mike is the VP of Systems Engineering and Test and General Manager of Enfabrica's North Carolina R&D Center, responsible for leading system-level software development efforts as well as integration, testing, and benchmarking of Enfabrica's hardware/software co-designed solutions. Prior to Enfabrica, he was a Senior Director at Broadcom in the Network Switch group responsible for global development, test and support of Enterprise and Data Center software products deployed at massive scale. Mike was also a Founder at Xpoint Technologies where he pioneered Intelligent I/O solutions in commodity based PC servers. He started his career in embedded software for wide-area and local-area networking.

Mike holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has four issued patents.

Brad Bratten

Vice-President, Business Development and Sales

Brad is the VP of Business Development and Sales at Enfabrica, responsible for driving and leading the company's new business opportunities, customer design wins, and overall sales growth. Prior to Enfabrica, he served as the VP of Business Development and Sales at networking startup Arrcus for 6 years, where he drove their go-to-market and customer acquisition for disaggregated networking solutions, achieving 100% YOY revenue growth. He previously spent 16 years at Broadcom in multiple senior Business Development and Sales roles, and drove the proliferation of their Data Center Networking solutions (switches, NICs, optics, software) and partnerships with Hyperscalers, Cloud SPs and Telcos.

Brad holds a B.A. degree from the University of Arizona.

Boris Shpolyansky

Vice-President, Customer Engineering

Boris is the VP of Customer Engineering at Enfabrica, responsible for leading technical development and engineering support for the company's customer engagements, from initial architectural discussions, through technical evaluations, customer system design, and integration processes, to final production deployments and post-production support. Prior to joining Enfabrica, Boris was a key leader for 6 years at Pensando Systems, including after its acquisition by AMD, during which he formed and led their Customer Engineering team, building effective processes and assets for customer training, technical support, RMA and failure analysis. Previously he spent 19 years at Mellanox in multiple senior chip, software development, solutions, and field applications roles.

Boris holds an MS degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and has one issued patent.

Sujal Das

Vice-President, Products

Sujal is the VP of Products at Enfabrica responsible for product strategy, marketing, and delivery of silicon, software and systems for data center AI networking at scale. Prior to Enfabrica, he was at Microsoft leading the delivery of a highly scalable Azure edge cloud service for enterprises targeting modern 5G and AI-enabled applications. Previously, during his 15 years of experience at Netronome, Broadcom and Mellanox (now Nvidia), Sujal defined, delivered, and brought to market multiple data center infrastructure silicon and software technologies that today apply to Gen AI infrastructure scaling requirements. He collaborated with multiple hyperscale/enterprise customers and ecosystem partners to address gaps in customer experiences, maintaining focus on product-market fit and business goals.

Sujal holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani in India.

Muru Meyyappan

Vice-President, Silicon and Hardware Operations

Muru is VP of Silicon and Hardware Operations at Enfabrica, responsible for leading Product/Test Engineering, Package Assembly, Quality, Reliability, Manufacturing Logistics and Planning. He brings a wealth of expertise and leadership to the company with a career spanning 25+ years in the semiconductor industry. Muru is dedicated to driving innovation, operations strategy, execution, and excellence in all facets of silicon development and manufacturing. Prior to Enfabrica, he led the Product/Test Engineering organization at Marvell/Inphi supporting DSP and ASIC product lines, where he honed his skills in New Product Introduction, Product Quality, Planning and High Volume Manufacturing. He previously led Inphi's DDR Register/Buffer team within Operations to productize various DDR products and ramp manufacturing at various Tier-1 Customers.

Muru holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, and an Executive Program Management Certification from University of California, Berkeley.

Albert Greenberg

Advisor

Rachit Agarwal

Advisor