Varun Khurana

Current

• Co-founder and CEO at Wirkle Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Past

• Lead Engineer at Network Appliance

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Connections

222 connections

Industry

Wireless

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Varun Khurana’s Summary

After graduating from IIT, I started my career as an engineer in Silicon Valley, California ... moved on to leading engineering teams to deliver cutting edge products. Subsequently, I led Wirkle (a mobile software development company) as its CEO from a zero revenue startup to a multi-million dollar business it is today.

Varun Khurana’s Specialties:

mobile, web2.0

Varun Khurana’s Experience

• Co-founder and CEO

  Wirkle Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

  2006 — Present (2 years)

  Led Wirkle from a zero revenue startup to a multi-million dollar business.
  
  Wirkle is a leading product engineering firm focused on developing software products for the mobile including telecom grade client/server platforms, SMS applications and Mobile Internet (WAP). The Company has designed, developed, maintained, supported, tested and ported several mobile platforms for hundreds of handsets of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Blackberry, Pocket PC and iPhone
  
  Wirkle's expertise in the mobile space spans Social Networking, Instant Messaging, Location Based Services, Multimedia Streaming, Banking, Enterprise applications, Payments, Barcode Scanning and beyond. Millions of mobile users across the globe today are using products developed by Wirkle through various carriers across multiple geographies including North America – AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, Boost Mobile; Europe – Telenor; Asia – Airtel, Idea and more. For more information please visit: www.wirkle.com

• Lead Engineer

  Network Appliance

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NTAP; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2001 — 2006 (5 years)

  Lead Engineer for Volume SnapMirror, NetApp's data replication product. Experience in systems software architecture, design, implementation, testing, support and leading engineering teams through these phases of the product lifecycle.

Varun Khurana’s Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  BTech, Comp Science and Engineering, 1997 — 2001

Additional Information

Varun Khurana’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Varun Khurana’s Groups:

•    Mobile Monday Delhi
•    Mobile Monday India
•    Mobile Marketing Industry Australia
•    Mobile Web Club Australia
•    Mobile start-ups - 3000+ members and growing!
•    MobiTechSol Community

Varun Khurana’s Honors:

Research Publications -
• R. Garg, A. Kamra, V. Khurana, A Game-Theoretic Approach Towards Congestion Control in Communication Networks. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 32, Number 3 (July 2002).
• R. Garg, H. Saran, V. Khurana, Performance Analysis of Rate Controlled Schedulers in Virtual Networks. Proceedings of IEEE-ADCOM 2000, Dec 2000.

Patents -
• US Patent 7,406,329 : Method and apparatus for subscribing and receiving personalized updates in a format customized for handheld mobile communication devices.
• US Patent 7,065,482 : Internet traffic analysis tool
• US Patent 6,829,649 : Congestion control system to allocate bandwidth of a link to dataflows.

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