Murugan Pal

Who is Murugan Pal?

Before founding SpikeSource, Murugan Pal was an

Entrepreneur-in-Residence with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins,

Caufield Byers. Previously, he was CTO and cofounder of

e-business software company Asera. Before Asera, Murugan was a

principal developer at Oracle Corporation in the Application Server

division and was part of the company's early XML initiatives. Prior to

Oracle, he was one of the lead developers of Versant Corporation's

Object Database. Murugan has worked on real-time enterprise

technologies, composite applications, service-oriented architecture

runtimes, relational databases, object databases and robotics and

manufacturing automation.

Murugan holds a Bachelor's degree

in Mechanical Engineering from Madurai University in India, a Master's

in Industrial Engineering and a Master's in Computer Science from

Arizona State University, and was also a Doctoral Candidate in

Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University.