Samir Parikh, VP of Product Management at Juniper Networks, brings two decades of networking and telecommunications product management and engineering experience. Previously, he was Head of Product at Intentionet, the company behind the open-source intent-based networking project Batfish. Prior to that, he was VP of Product Management at Gainspeed, Inc. (acquired by Nokia) driving innovation in the cable access market with innovative virtual CCAP solutions. He started his networking career at Cisco, where he was responsible for the Carrier Routing System (CRS) product line, and strategy for the service provider core routing market. Samir earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.