Aleksandr leads the hardware engineering organization at Astera Labs and has the responsibility for design and development of system and board level connectivity solutions for data-centric applications operations. Aleks has over 20 years of experience in engineering and technical management with a proven track record in driving innovation in hardware engineering in cloud and data center markets. He was one of the early employees at Arista Networks and Insieme Networks where he drove hardware development for data center switches. He has also held leadership roles driving hardware development and evaluating emerging technologies at Cisco, Zoox and Deutsche Bank Labs. Aleks holds MS in Computer Engineering from University of Michigan and MBA from University of California at Berkeley. Outside of work, Aleks is passionate about autonomous driving and race cars.