At Equinix, Kaladhar is a Senior Technologist, Office of the Chief Strategy Officer and actively working on distributed AI, analytics and blockchain architectures. He is also in charge of company-wide employee innovation program called “Sparkathon”.  He previously worked at IBM Research Lab and the NetApp Advanced Technology Lab.  He obtained his BSc in Computer Engineering and PhD in Computing Science from University of Alberta, Canada. He has 70 patents filed and issued in the area of network and storage systems.