Education
Arizona State University.
Arizona State University.
Before joining CK-12 Foundation, Murugan was an EIR with Foundation Capital. Before founding SpikeSource, Pal was an entrepreneur-in-residence with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Previously, he was a Founding Engineer of e-business software company Asera, Incorporated.
Before Asera, Pal was a principal developer at Oracle Corporation in the Application Server division and was part of the company"s early eXtensible Markup Language initiatives.
Prior to Oracle, he was one of the lead developers of Versant Corporation"s Object Database. Pal worked on real-time enterprise technologies, composite applications, service-oriented architecture runtimes, relational databases, object databases, and robotics and manufacturing automation.
Pal held a Bachelor"s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, affiliated to Madurai University in India, a Master"s in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University, a Master"s in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and was a Doctoral Candidate in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University. In 2010, Pal was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis . He died on October 30, 2012.