About us

Pranav Viswanathan
Co-Founder and CEO

Pranav Viswanathan is the co-founder of NetSim (2005) and its chief architect. Pranav serves as the CEO and oversees R&D, Product, and Support. In the early years, he wrote the Discrete Event Simulation (DES) framework for NetSim including the simulation kernel and the performance metrics computation engine. His current focus is on the 5G library and adding a Machine Learning framework to NetSim.
Pranav has a penchant for interacting with customers, appreciating their requirements, and answering needs with software. He has 17+ years of experience in the field of network simulation and emulation, and has traveled worldwide to orchestrate solutions using NetSim.
Pranav received his B-Tech from IIT Madras in 2003.

Shashikant Suman
Co-Founder and Technical Lead

Shashikant is part of the founding team of NetSim and is the current development lead. Over the years he developed most of NetSim's internal infrastructure including the virtual (TCP/IP) network stack, the emulator module for external connectivity, NetSim APIs and the Custom code development framework. Additionally, he has also written a number of protocol libraries 802.11, 802.15.4, MANET, VANET, and 5G NR.

The present challenges he is working on are
(i) deepening the 5G NR library to meet cellular service provider needs, and
(ii) rewriting the GUI to improve ease of use.
Shashikant received his Integrated MSc from IIT Kharagpur.