Surinder brings to Kirusa 18 years of complete software product development and delivery life cycle experience, including 12 years in a technical leadership and management role; expertise in telecommunication, mobile data networks, VoIP, billing & OSS, TCP/IP and OSI protocols and networks, web technologies and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Before joining Kirusa, Surinder worked as CTO & VP Business Development at Savera, a leading vendor of web based inter-connect billing solution for telecommunication and IP carriers. Surinder lead the efforts from conception to delivery for Savera's flagship product InterCarrier, with a scalable distributed architecture that supported processing of more than 2.5 billion transactions per month. Prior to Savera, Surinder worked at Network Programs in NJ as Product Manager where he designed and developed a network capacity planning and cost estimation tool for a CLEC and managed projects for wireless, cable and power-line communication network solutions. As a Senior Technical Leader at Hughes Software Systems (HSS) based in Delhi, Surinder led the development of the OSS subsystem of the Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) product for mobile IP service culminating in successful deployment by multiple carriers in North America. From 1989 to 1994, Surinder was a Senior Scientific Officer for ERNET Project, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Surinder started his career at Tata Consultancy Services as Software Engineer.

Surinder holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from IIT, Delhi.