Equinix announced the appointment of Justin Dustzadeh as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
Dustzadeh joins Equinix from Uber, where he was the Head of Global Network & Software Platform. Prior to Uber, Dustzadeh worked at Visa, where he spearheaded the transformation of Visa’s global infrastructure (one of the world’s most mission-critical environments) toward open, software-defined networking and cloud technologies—including SDN, NFV, network virtualization, containers and open/commodity hardware. Before joining Visa, Dustzadeh was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Technology Strategy at Huawei, held various positions at Ericsson and AT&T, was a founder of a Silicon-Valley technology startup, and worked at two leading service providers in France.
Dustzadeh received a B.S. in Theoretical Physics from École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) in Paris, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Télécom Paris.
