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Saurav Chatterjee, Ph.D.

Computer Technology Expert

Saurav Chatterjee, Ph.D. is a highly accomplished technologist and entrepreneur. He was the Chief Architect of Visa's V.me mobile initiatives, and has held other senior technology management positions at Cisco Systems and Macromedia. He has extensive experience in developing new technologies (especially voice, location and mobile technologies), building companies, and managing teams. Saurav is a named inventor on over 20 United States patents with another 24 patents pending.

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Mobile Technologies (LBS, call control, IM, video, WiFi WMM)
Mobile Handsets (Android, iOS, RIM, Brew, WM, J2ME, Symbian)
Mobile, Multimedia, Unified Communication & Collaboration
Mobile Payments
Networks and Networking
Operating Systems
Databases

 

Multimedia Systems & QoS (audio, video, VoIP)
Amazon Web Services EC2, S3, EMR
Agile development
Cloud (PaaS, SaaS)
Large Scale E-Commerce Systems & Solutions
Developing RESTful web-services/APIs



Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D., Computer Engineering
M.S., Computer Engineering

University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science




Select Highlights

As senior leader (Chief Architect, Chief Scientist) at two start-ups, successfully guided these companies from inception to successful acquisition (by Cisco and Macromedia).

Evangelized the companies’ vision, strategies, and architecture to partners & acquiring company executives.

Led technical due diligence for Visa acquisitions, including Playspan and Fundamo.