Naren has spent three decades in a variety of activities in the science and technology space - fundamental research at Bell Labs, working at startups in the email and advertising space, and leading engineering teams and launching new products and infrastructure in the areas of Search, Advertising, Storage, Networking, Distributed Systems, and AI/ML at Google and Amazon. Throughout his career, Naren has had a particular interest in adapting novel technological and scientific concepts to pragmatic applications in scalable and performant hardware and software. Naren has a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an M.S. in Math and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.