Sriram Rupanagunta  is a co-founder at Aarna Networks, Inc, and heads their engineering team.  Aarna Networks provides commercial distribution of ONAP. Prior to Aarna, Sriram was the Head of India Engineering at Data Center Business of  Western Digital Corp, responsible for the development of ActiveScale product line from India development center.

Prior to Western Digital, Sriram was with the SSD based startup Virident Systems (which was acquired by Western Digital). Earlier to that, Sriram was also the co-founder of start up Aarohi Communications which was acquired by Emulex Corporation, and was the Vice President, Technology at Emulex. He lives in Bangalore, India with his wife and a daughter.