Building Trust in Autonomous Networks with Optical Network Management Welcome to “From AI Hype to Operational Credibility,” a five-part …
Hariprasad Sudharshan
Hariprasad Sudharshan
Hariprasad Sudharshan is Senior Product Manager, Artificial Intelligence & API 1Finity a Fujitsu company, where he specializes in building AI products for network operators. Hari has 19 years of experience in deep tech, spanning optical networking, telecom software, and applied AI/ML.
In his role at 1FINITY, Hari built the a decision-intelligence platform for Network Carriers in Japan, Europe, and North America. He is shipping a new product category of agents for network operations. His work includes Autonomous failure-analysis, resource-optimization agents that reduces MTTR for operators. He owns AI product strategy from customer discovery to go-to-market. He has in-depth knowledge of Optical Networking, Network Automation agentic AI, Traditional ML systems and designs for AI explainability making the AI decision inspectable before the feature ships.
Hari holds multiple granted U.S. patents in network protocol innovation with few AI patents filed.
In his spare time, Hari competes in AI hackathons, builds open-source projects and enjoys fast bowling in Dallas Cricket leagues.
