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Esper CEO and Founder Yadhu Gopalan built the underlying infrastructure for multiple device fleets at Microsoft and Amazon (Amazon Go stores, FireTV, Kindle, and Alexa). Over time, he began to ask: Why can’t I just build this once and let everyone use it? That’s when Yadhu joined forces with Shiv Sundar to found Esper. Both spent decades of their careers at the intersection of hardware and software and have shipped a combined 100 million devices globally. Esper’s platform incorporates the instant, always-on reliability cloud SaaS companies depend on, re-imagined for devices.
Esper’s Senior Leadership has the experience and commitment needed for solving complicated enterprise device problems. 100’s of millions of devices run code we’ve personally built. We know Android and DevOps inside and out, from chip to cloud.
Co-Founder & CEO
Yadhu has over 25 years and 35 patents in embedded systems and security. His career includes past engineering leadership roles such as Chief Architect of the Windows CE and Windows Phone. At Amazon, Yadhu designed back-end solutions for the FireOS, and AWS before he owned Systems Engineering for Amazon Go. Today, Yadhu is our Chief Geek, CEO, and Co-Founder, and the visionary behind our mission to educate enterprises about DevOps for Smart Edge devices.
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CEO
Yadhu has over 25 years and 35 patents in embedded systems and security. His career includes past engineering leadership roles such as Chief Architect of the Windows CE and Windows Phone. At Amazon, Yadhu designed back-end solutions for the FireOS, and AWS before he owned Systems Engineering for Amazon Go. Today, Yadhu is our Chief Geek, CEO, and Co-Founder, and the visionary behind our mission to educate enterprises about DevOps for Smart Edge devices.
Co-Founder & COO
Co-Founder & COO
Shiv makes things happen, both at Esper and for our customers. He knows Android inside-and-out after running Android partnerships for Huawei. Shiv strengthened his open source and device maker relationships after managing OEM partnerships at Cyanogen and Windows Phone device commercialization for Microsoft. Shiv is always ready to help businesses achieve secure DevOps and deliver incredible customer experiences.
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer
David is a three-time startup CFO and has led high-growth startups in increasing their revenue from single-digit millions to over one hundred million. He has a proven track record in managing and leading acquisition strategies, raising multiple rounds of venture capital, and leading successful exit strategies. David has a unique blend of technical knowledge and device management experience, in addition to keen business acumen.
SVP - Engineering
SVP - Engineering
Sudhir is a hands-on technologist who prides himself in building and scaling global engineering teams while delivering high-quality products for customers worldwide. He is an empathic leader who passionately cares about customer success, product quality, and engineering excellence. With over 26 years of experience, Sudhir brings a unique blend of business acumen, product innovation, development of large-scale DevOps platforms, and execution capabilities to Esper. He joins Esper from Chef, a pioneer in DevOps, where he was the global head of engineering and has held leadership roles at Intuit, Oracle, Hyperion, and ASML.
VP of Professional Services
VP of Professional Services
Keith is the geeky force-of-nature that drives Esper’s efforts to build a community of Android dedicated device developers and creators. He evangelizes Esper’s value to devs, product owners, and chief tech officers. Keith’s experience includes running product management for a dev tools startup that was sold to Symantec. Next, he worked at Microsoft with MSDN, CryptoAPI, Windows CE / Platform Builder, and Windows Mobile. Keith’s first programming language was BASIC on the TRS-80. He’s also shipped code for a PDP -11 at Siemens.
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