Rakesh Kumar, a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks, has an extensive background in building multi-processing fault tolerant compute systems, networking ASICs & platform, and software & security platforms in his previous roles. Currently he is driving Juniper’s MLCommons benchmarking using AI models such as BERT, DLRM & Llama2 on a purpose-built AI Cluster with highly optimized and tuned Ethernet Fabric.