Purna Roy

Purna Roy, Product Advisor

Purna brings more than twelve years of experience in managing and leading technology architecture. Most recently, he was a director of technology for the online trading web-site of Charles Schwab, which is known to be the largest secure transaction site in the world, carrying over 90,000 concurrent users at peak hours. Purna was the chief architect for this site at its launch in 1996. Notably, Purna was the principal force behind the server-side Java deployment on schwab.com. His work has been highly regarded and published as a case study on the IBM web-site. He has also served as a speaker on the Java/J2EE technology direction for Java forums in the bay area.

Prior to Schwab, Purna worked at the NASA Ames Reserch Center, where he led teams to build real-time systems. Purna started his career at Megatest, a Silicon Valley firm where he led the development of a distributed system to control the automated wafer-test floor for IBM. Purna holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University and received his undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Technology

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