Karthik Mandakolathur is a product manager for NVIDIA Magnum IO and focuses on accelerating distributed AI, data analytics, and HPC applications. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Karthik has held senior engineering and product positions at Broadcom and Cisco. He earned an MBA from The Wharton School, MSEE from Stanford and BSEE from Indian Institute of Technology. He holds a couple of U.S. patents in the area of high performance switching architectures.