8x8 Assembles World-Class Engineering Team to Accelerate Innovation in Cloud Communications, Contact Center & Collaboration T...
July 24 2017 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
SVP of Global R&D Dejan Deklich leads
advanced engineering initiative to dominate industry with next
generation cloud communications technologies
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), provider of the world’s first
Communications Cloud, today announced the evolution of the
company’s next generation engineering initiative bolstered by
recent high-caliber hires from some of the most respected
technology companies in Silicon Valley. With these additional
resources and expertise, 8x8 is accelerating its strategy to
dominate the industry with the most advanced enterprise cloud
communications solutions available.
“8x8 is clearly becoming the engineering destination to develop
cutting-edge technology, and this is enabling us to increase our
velocity of development and innovation,” said Dejan Deklich, Senior
Vice President of global research and development (R&D) at 8x8.
“Our team is attracting top engineers across the globe that are
bringing years of industry expertise building leading cloud and
mobile platforms and apps from companies like Amazon Web Services,
Oracle, VMWare and Cisco. They’re joining 8x8 ready to solve some
of the biggest business communications and collaboration problems
that midmarket and enterprise companies face today.”
Recognized as an industry leader, 8x8 has been awarded 137
patents in the United States and United Kingdom, covering a variety
of voice and video communications, signaling, processing, contact
center and storage technologies. The 8x8 engineering organization
has been at the forefront of innovation and development for the
company’s products and services, such as 8x8 Virtual Office®, 8x8
Virtual Contact Center®, 8x8 ContactNow™ and the superior voice
quality delivered by the 8x8 Communications Cloud™ cited recently
by the Tolly Group. By incorporating leading-edge technologies into
8x8’s industry-leading product portfolio, such as big data,
microservices, machine learning, artificial intelligence, SD-WAN,
and WebRTC, the company is well-positioned for continued growth and
success driving global midmarket and enterprise adoption for its
solutions.
The engineering team, under the leadership of Dejan Deklich, who
has vast experience overseeing engineering efforts to develop
next-generation microservices architectures, big data computational
platforms and large scale systems, is scaling globally to meet the
challenging business requirements of the company’s growing
midmarket and enterprise customer base. Recent enhancements to the
8x8 engineering organization include:
- Boris Strongin, VP of Platform
Engineering: Boris Strongin is a seasoned technologist,
executive, entrepreneur, leader and mentor with more than 20 years
of experience working with big data, microservices and machine
learning technologies, while building cutting-edge, game-changing
products and leading global engineering teams at companies such as
Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Oracle and HyTrust. At 8x8, he
oversees global and analytics platform engineering, in addition to
the move to microservices, APIs, Script8 and other core services at
scale. He holds a doctorate in Physics from MIT.
- Jared Smith-Mickelson, VP of
Applications: Jared Smith-Mickelson has nearly 20 years of
experience in enterprise software, overseeing API, mobile,
integration, and big-data teams. He previously held executive
engineering positions at Jive Software and Cisco Systems. At 8x8,
he runs all global application development, which includes support
for 8x8’s contact center solutions, mobile and desktop clients. He
holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and
electrical engineering from MIT.
- Ramana Sampangi, Senior Director of
Global Quality Effort: Ramana Sampangi is an accomplished
business executive with experience in core technologies such as
LAN, storage, virtualization, security and cloud. Prior to joining
8x8, he held senior-level engineering roles at Riverbed Technology,
Cisco, IBM, Hewlett Packard and others. At 8x8, Sampangi oversees
all quality efforts worldwide for the 8x8 platform, apps and
analytics. Sampangi has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and
engineering from University of Mysore.
- Edgar Nidome, Principal
Architect: Edgar Nidome is a talented engineering architect
with years of experience working with large, distributed systems,
microservices, machine learning and big data technologies for
enterprise customers at companies such as Marketo, Merced Systems,
CollabNet, IBM and others. At 8x8, he is responsible for developing
and refining 8x8’s robust product offering.
- Haim Tebeka, Director of Mobile
Engineering: Haim Tebeka is a seasoned software engineer and
leader with more than 30 years of experience in mobile and embedded
software development at companies including Microsoft, VMWare and
Broadcom, among others. He’s passionate about delivering the best
mobile user experience and created one of the first apps available
in the App Store. At 8x8, Tebeka leads the development of mobile
apps.
In the past year, 8x8 has significantly grown its engineering
organization by approximately one-third to more than 200 full-time
employees worldwide. This comes at the heels of 8x8’s announcement
of the Cluj, Romania office last year, which has quickly become an
incubator for specialized engineering and programming talent from
local universities in the region.
About 8x8, Inc.8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT) is the provider of
the world's first Communications Cloud that combines unified
communications, team collaboration, contact center, and analytics
in a single, open and real-time platform. 8x8 eliminates
information silos to expose vital, real-time intelligence across
multiple clouds, applications and devices to improve individual and
team productivity, business performance and customer experience.
For additional information, visit www.8x8.com, or connect with 8x8
on LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook.
8x8®, 8x8 Virtual Office®,8x8 Virtual Contact Center®, 8x8
ContactNow™ and 8x8 Communications Cloud™ are trademarks of 8x8,
Inc.
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