Rajesh Gadiyar leads telco and edge architecture at NVIDIA. He is focused on developing technologies for building virtualized 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) in the cloud. He works with communications service providers (CoSPs) to modernize their networks using cloud native technologies.Before joining NVIDIA in 2022, Rajesh was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Network Platforms Group at Intel. He led the architecture and product development efforts to accelerate cloud native network applications in 5G infrastructure, edge clouds, video processing and AI in Networking and delivered many generations of network server platforms.