Stas Khirman

Current

CTO at Khirman & Son
Director at American Business Association of Russian Professionals (AmBAR)
Executive Committee Member at Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD) Conference

Founder & Moderator at CoolTech Club

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Past

CTO and co-Founder at SkyRider
CTO and co-Founder at Narus
Networking Group Leader at VDOnet

Senior Network Engineer at RDC Communication/Marconi
Software Engineer at Elta ( Israel Aircraft Industry)

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Education

Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
Ukrainian physical-mathematical lyceum of T.Shevchenko University

Recommended

4 people have recommended Stas

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Networking

Websites

Stas Khirman’s Summary

Twenty years of diversified experience in the software industry as founder, architect, manager, leader, visionary and inventor. Leader and mentor of engineering teams. Proven experience in high-tech startups, full product development cycle and solution delivery. Luminary known for outstanding industry and customer relationships.

Stas Khirman’s Specialties:

• High-performance world wide distributed cooperative Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks
• Distributed Video Content Delivery Network (P2P CDN)
• High-speed Deep-Packet Inspection(DPI) equipment
• Internet Video-on-Demand (VoD) streaming systems
• Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and Internet Video (H.323,SIP, RTP/RTCP)
• BSS/OSS , prepaid and postpaid billing applications, CDR and IPDR
• Wireless data communication, management and control components (GPRS, GSM, CDMA, UMTS, 2.5G, 3G), WiFi (IEEE802.11x)

Stas Khirman’s Experience

CTO

Khirman & Son

(Computer Networking industry)

May 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)

Advisory and consulting services to small startups and large corporations....

Expertise in P2P, DPI, Video-On-Demand, VoIP, network/telecom equipment, systems, applications, etc…

Selected clients:
- Juniper Networks
- nLayers ( acquired by EMC)
- AtomicsLab
- Rainba Networks
- Devetel
Director

American Business Association of Russian Professionals (AmBAR)

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

AmBAR is a non-profit business association of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, engineers, lawyers and other professionals with headquarters in Silicon Valley. Started as an organization of expatriates from Russia, Ukraine and other CIS countries that are involved in technology businesses in the United States, AmBAR has grown into a large network in which innovators and entrepreneurs of all origins can exchange ideas and business contacts.
Executive Committee Member

Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD) Conference

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Investment Banking industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

SVOD conference is the only event of its kind bringing dozens of high-tech innovators from Russia, Ukraine and other FSU countries together with US sources of venture capital. It introduces American venture capital community to ideas, technologies, and entrepreneurial talent that come out of universities and research labs in the Former Soviet Union. SVOD provides an unparalleled opportunity for the Russian and Ukrainian entrepreneurs to commercialize their ideas globally, learn American venture fundraising practices, acquire necessary business acumen and skills, meet US investors, and create partnership ties with Silicon Valley's ecosystem. See more details at http://www.svod.org
Founder & Moderator

CoolTech Club

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Networking industry)

July 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)

CoolTechClub - Cool Technologies Discussion Club is an open society of Silicon Valley high-tech experts who enjoy spending their spare time in hot discussions about cool technologies.

We have monthly face-to-face meeting in Mountain View/Menlo Park area where we are sharing knowledge and experience about high-tech related topics, such as GPRS, WiFi, VoIP, EDA, SNMP and whatever new cool acronym we’ll find around. We are using our Club as a meeting place for job hunting, quick consultation, startup ideas validation, funding search and many other social interactions.

If you are living in Silicon Valley , enjoy working in high-tech industry and like participate in technologies discussions , feel free to subscribe to our mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoolTechClub/
CTO and co-Founder

SkyRider

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

October 2004 — February 2008 (3 years 5 months)

Skyrider develops technologies to organize and monetize peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Today the company’s technology adds web like advertising and distribution capabilities to P2P, creating a large distribution channel for media companies and content owners to monetize their digital assets and for advertisers to reach a vast audience.
CTO and co-Founder

Narus

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1997 — May 2004 (6 years 7 months)

Co-Found a successful Silicon Valley start-up and lead its technology from idea conception to the commercial success.

Incept, design and implement technological background for Internet Business Support Platform – instrumentation middleware to enable deployment of variety of Billing, Fraud detection and other Business Support Solutions in Tier-1 ISPs environments.

Expertise: WiFi, DOCSIS, xDSL, 2.5G , 3g, GPRS , VoIP, H.323, SIP, XML, IPDR, PARLAY, billing, pre-paid billing.
Networking Group Leader

VDOnet

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

December 1995 — November 1997 (2 years)

Invent and implement an adaptive algorithm for transmitting real-time audio and video information over Internet and other types of variable bandwidth networks.

Design and implement a network platform for streaming video over the public unmanaged networks (Internet).

Lead development of the one of the industry-first implementation of H.323 VoIP protocol stacks.

Expertise: VoIP, Video-on-demand, H.323, adaptive TCP protocols, RSVP, QoS
Senior Network Engineer

RDC Communication/Marconi

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

March 1994 — December 1995 (1 year 10 months)
Software Engineer

Elta ( Israel Aircraft Industry)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

January 1992 — March 1994 (2 years 3 months)