Our team

Rochan Sankar

Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder

Rochan is founder, President and CEO of Enfabrica responsible for the company's strategic/product vision while driving all facets of operational, engineering, and business execution excellence and growth. Prior to founding Enfabrica, he was Senior Director at Broadcom leading their Data Center Ethernet switching business, where he defined and brought to market four generations of Tomahawk and Trident chips and drove industry-wide adoption of foundational cloud networking technologies. He is a 26-year industry veteran with prior roles in product management, chip architecture, and engineering across startup and public semiconductor companies.

Rochan holds a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Wharton School, and has eleven issued patents.

Shrijeet Mukherjee

Chief Development Officer, Co-Founder

Shrijeet is co-founder and Chief Development Officer of Enfabrica, where he comprehensively defines and drives the architecture, engineering and innovation pipeline across software, hardware, and systems. Prior to founding Enfabrica, he was an architect in Google's network infrastructure group. Previously he was VP Engineering at Cumulus building software to revolutionize Open Networking. At Cisco UCS he was Director of Architecture and Software working on the NIC and virtualization systems later known as DPUs. At SGI, he was part of the Advanced Graphics team that invented floating point framebuffers and programmable shaders that underpin today's GPUs and accelerators.

Shrijeet is on the Linux NetDev Society Board of Directors and has 64 issued patents. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

Brad Bratten

Vice-President, Business Development and Sales

Brad is the VP of Business Development and Sales at Enfabrica, responsible for driving and leading the company's new business opportunities, customer design wins, and overall sales growth. Prior to Enfabrica, he served as the VP of Business Development and Sales at networking startup Arrcus for 6 years, where he drove their go-to-market and customer acquisition for disaggregated networking solutions, achieving 100% YOY revenue growth. He previously spent 16 years at Broadcom in multiple senior Business Development and Sales roles, and drove the proliferation of their Data Center Networking solutions (switches, NICs, optics, software) and partnerships with Hyperscalers, Cloud SPs and Telcos.

Brad holds a B.A. degree from the University of Arizona.

Elli Castro

Vice President, Legal and General Counsel

Elli is the VP of Legal and General Counsel at Enfabrica, responsible for managing the company's legal affairs. Prior to Enfabrica, Elli served as the VP and Deputy General Counsel at Astera Labs, where she led the commercial and compliance function and played a pivotal role in overseeing the company's successful IPO on NASDAQ. Before joining Astera Labs, Elli spent more than a decade in various in-house counsel leadership roles at leading semiconductor companies, including Marvell, Inphi (later acquired by Marvell), and Broadcom.

Elli has a J.D. from Tulane University School of Law and a B.A. in International Relations/History from Claremont McKenna College.

Carlo Contavalli

Vice-President, Software Engineering

Carlo is VP of Software Engineering at Enfabrica, responsible for the development, execution, and roadmap of Enfabrica's customer-facing system software stack as well as directing internal-facing software infrastructure and IT initiatives. Previously, he was Senior Director in the CTO Office of Juniper Networks and before that a key member of Google's Network Infrastructure team. During his 12 years at Google, he bootstrapped and ran multiple host network processing and SDN projects that became key building blocks in Google Cloud Platform and Google's CDN, and ran the teams responsible for the host networking stack running on most of Google's server fleet. Carlo holds multiple patents, while papers on the work of his teams have been published at SIGCOMM, SOSP, and NSDI.

Mike Goldflam

Vice-President, Systems Engineering and Test

Mike is the VP of Systems Engineering and Test and General Manager of Enfabrica's North Carolina R&D Center, responsible for leading system-level software development efforts as well as integration, testing, and benchmarking of Enfabrica's hardware/software co-designed solutions. Prior to Enfabrica, he was a Senior Director at Broadcom in the Network Switch group responsible for global development, test and support of Enterprise and Data Center software products deployed at massive scale. Mike was also a Founder at Xpoint Technologies where he pioneered Intelligent I/O solutions in commodity based PC servers. He started his career in embedded software for wide-area and local-area networking.

Mike holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has four issued patents.

Mike Jorda

Vice-President, Silicon Engineering

Mike is VP of Silicon Engineering responsible for managing all aspects and disciplines of high-performance networking silicon development at Enfabrica. Previously, Mike was at Broadcom for over 22 years. As Senior Director of Engineering, Mike led and/or contributed to the successful design, verification, tapeout, and post-silicon deployment of over 20 high-volume Ethernet networking chips - from the very first StrataXGS switches to the most recent Tomahawk products - managing large engineering teams across multiple geographies and functional disciplines. He joined Broadcom through the acquisition of startup Maverick Networks. He started his career at Chromatic Research, building VLIW processors for graphics and multimedia applications.

Mike holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois and has four issued patents.

Boris Shpolyansky

Vice-President, Customer Engineering

Boris is the VP of Customer Engineering at Enfabrica, responsible for leading technical development and engineering support for the company's customer engagements, from initial architectural discussions, through technical evaluations, customer system design, and integration processes, to final production deployments and post-production support. Prior to joining Enfabrica, Boris was a key leader for 6 years at Pensando Systems, including after its acquisition by AMD, during which he formed and led their Customer Engineering team, building effective processes and assets for customer training, technical support, RMA and failure analysis. Previously he spent 19 years at Mellanox in multiple senior chip, software development, solutions, and field applications roles.

Boris holds an MS degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and has one issued patent.

Rachit Agarwal

Advisor

Albert Greenberg

Advisor

George Tchaparian

Advisor

Rochan Sankar

Enfabrica CEO

Director

Shrijeet Mukherjee

Enfabrica CDO

Director

Gavin Baker

Atreides Management

Director

Stefan Dyckerhoff

Sutter Hill Ventures

Director

James Kuklinski

Spark Capital

Director