Abdul Khader Thakkadi
Senior Director of Engineering, Telecom Systems Business
Abdul is the Senior Director of Telecom Solutions Engineering and Open Telcom Ecosystem Labs (OTEL) at Dell. He is driving innovation that helps communication service providers to modernize their network with open, industry-standard, and a cloud-native telecom solutions. Abdul is a passionate technology leader with over 25 years of experience in building networking and telecom products and solutions. Prior to Dell Technologies, he served various roles in product development engineering and customer experience at Cisco, Brocade Communications and Extreme Networks.
Abdul holds an MBA from Saint Mary’s College of California, and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India.