# Amar Kapadia

> Amar Kapadia is a San Jose technology founder, former chip designer, technical author and educator. He co-founded Aarohi Communications and later Aarna Networks, known as aarna.ml, with Sriram Rupanagunta. His work moved from networking hardware and cloud storage to open-source telecom orchestration and GPU cloud management. Following Armada’s 2025 acquisition of Aarna, Armada identifies him as a Product Fellow.

- **Role:** Product Fellow at Armada
- **Organizations:** Armada, Aarna Networks / aarna.ml, Aarohi Communications, Mirantis, EVault, Emulex, Philips, HP
- **Education:** Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
- **Known for:** Co-founded Aarohi Communications, subsequently acquired by Emulex., Co-founded Aarna Networks, subsequently acquired by Armada., Authored ONAP Demystified, Understanding OPNFV and OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials.

## Career timeline

- **—** — Began as a chip designer working on HP PA-RISC CPUs; subsequently moved into product management.
- **2000s** — Co-founded Aarohi Communications, a 10GbE Smart NIC company; Aarohi became part of Emulex.
- **—** — Worked in marketing and engineering leadership roles at Emulex and Philips.
- **—** — Defined and launched an OpenStack Swift-based public cloud storage service at EVault.
- **—** — Headed NFV product marketing at Mirantis.
- **2017** — Published Linux Foundation writing on OPNFV and network transformation.
- **2018** — Co-founded Aarna Networks with Sriram Rupanagunta, according to his own account.
- **2020** — Described Aarna’s ONAP-based 5G and edge orchestration platform in an LF Networking member interview.
- **2021** — Submitted Aarna’s response to the NTIA 5G Challenge notice of inquiry.
- **2023** — Presented on GPU-based edge clouds for O-RAN at the IEEE SA Second Open RAN Summit.
- **2024** — Appeared on Humans in AI discussing entrepreneurship, customer needs and GPU cloud management.
- **2025** — Investor 3Lines announced Armada’s acquisition of Aarna Networks on November 25.
- **2026** — Authored Armada’s May 14 Bridge Marketplace announcement as Product Fellow.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Aarohi Communications, subsequently acquired by Emulex.
- Co-founded Aarna Networks, subsequently acquired by Armada.
- Authored ONAP Demystified, Understanding OPNFV and OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials.
- Listed as an instructor for Linux Foundation courses on ONAP and Anuket on edX.
- Contributed with Aarna to an OPNFV 5G demonstration selected as a 2020 Leading Lights Awards finalist.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Armada published his Bridge Marketplace launch article, identifying him as Product Fellow.
- **2026-01** — His LinkedIn profile lists the article Armada Powering the Next Generation of Secure, Multi-Tenant AI Factories, dated January 6.
- **2025-11** — 3Lines publicly announced the acquisition of Aarna Networks by Armada.

## Links

- Website: https://www.aarna.ml/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarkapadia
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/akapadia_usa
- GitHub: https://github.com/akapadiausa

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Last updated: 2026-10-24