She held senior tech development roles at Redback-Ericsson, Cisco, Veritas (Symantec), Routerware (Windriver Systems) and Hughes Research Labs developing software in the areas of L2/L3 Switching, Gigabit Ethernet, Distributed Systems, Wide Area Networking protocols like AToM, L2VPN, and ATM. She holds an M.S. from the University of Southern California and a B.E. from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune.