
From a first engineering post in India to WiMAX, LTE and glass-core packaging, Mandava's career follows a recurring question: what has to work underneath before the next computing market can scale?
OpenLight is a Goleta, California silicon photonics company building the world's first open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers. Spun out of Juniper Networks in 2022, it licenses a validated process design kit (PDK) and designs custom PASICs - photonic application-specific integrated circuits - that combine lasers, modulators, amplifiers and detectors on a single chip for AI data centers, datacom, telecom, LiDAR and quantum computing.