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10 AT&T engineering leaders
These ten current and former AT&T engineering leaders include a former AT&T CTO, a former senior vice president of engineering and operations, vice presidents of construction and engineering, and directors of network, radio access network and wireless engineering. A reader can learn how engineering leaders build and run their teams in telecommunications companies.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anil Malladi
LinkedInExperience: Director, Network Engineering & Adv. Analytics, Core Network · AT&T
Director, Network Engineering & Adv. Analytics, Core Network at AT&T since November 2021; the profile says the Network Engineering organization focuses on optimizing AT&T's network infrastructure to be both efficient and reliable. Former Manager, Data Science and Advanced Analytics at DIRECTV Latin America (2019–2021) and former Cloud Engineer at AT&T (2014–2019).
Brian Mecum
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Construction & Engineering West Region · AT&T
Vice President, Construction & Engineering West Region at AT&T since January 2026. Former Vice President, Business Product Engineering (2024–2025), former Vice President, Product & Device Technology (2018–2023) and former Vice President, Engineering and Operations (2013–2018) at Verizon.
Corey Anthony
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Engineering & Operations · AT&T
Former Senior Vice President, Engineering & Operations at AT&T (2022–2025), and Senior Vice President, Network Operations at AT&T since June 2025; the profile says the current role leads the teams operating and monitoring the mobility and voice core networks, common IP infrastructure, transport, cloud engineering and global network.
David Purdy
LinkedInExperience: Director Networks - IP Engineering · AT&T
Former Director Networks - IP Engineering at AT&T (2006–2014), and AVP Mobility Core Services at AT&T since January 2023, an operations role at President/Vice President level according to the profile. The profile also lists a current director-level network engineering role at AT&T from June 2014 that is responsible for AT&T National Core EPC.
James Wall
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Engineering · AT&T
Director Of Engineering at AT&T since January 2022; the profile describes the role as chief engineer for AT&T Network as a Service (NaaS) and the future Base Infrastructure Modernization (BIM) contracts. Former Associate Director Of Operations (2020–2022) and former Senior System Design Engineer (2019–2020) at AT&T.
Kevin Chu
LinkedInExperience: Director of Radio Access Network Engineering · AT&T
Director of Radio Access Network Engineering at AT&T since April 2009; the profile headline places the role in the Pacific Northwest. Former Director of RF Engineering, Pacific Northwest at AT&T (2005–2009) and former RF Engineering Manager, WA at Cingular Wireless (2001–2004).
Krish Prabhu
LinkedInExperience: CTO · AT&T
Former CTO at AT&T (2011–2016), based in Dallas, Texas, a C-level engineering and technical role according to the profile. Former CEO at Tellabs (2004–2008), former Venture Partner at Morgenthaler (2001–2004), former COO at Alcatel (1991–2001) and former Chief Engineer at Rockwell Telecom (1984–1991).
Kurt Woehr
LinkedInExperience: Director, Wireless RAN Engineering and Construction, E.PA S.NJ DE · AT&T
Director, Wireless RAN Engineering and Construction, E.PA S.NJ DE at AT&T since March 2023; the profile says Woehr leads a team of over 50 RF engineers and construction managers responsible for AT&T's wireless network build and operations in the E.PA/S.NJ/DE market.
Sinan Akkaya
LinkedInExperience: DIRECTOR OF RAN ENGINEERING · AT&T
DIRECTOR OF RAN ENGINEERING at AT&T since September 2013; the profile headline places the role in Radio Access Network Engineering for California. Former MANAGER OF RF ENGINEERING at AT&T (2007–2013) and former PRINCIPAL RF ENGINEER at Wireless Facilities International Ltd. (2002–2007).
Todd Zeiler
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Network Wireline & Wireless Access Construction & Engineering - East Region · AT&T
Vice President, Network Wireline & Wireless Access Construction & Engineering - East Region at AT&T since June 2025. Former VP of Wireless Engineering (2022–2025), former Assistant Vice President - Network (2021–2022) and former ATT - Director Member of Technical Staff (Wireless Architecture, CTO Organization) (2015–2019) at AT&T.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's scope to your question, since radio access and construction leaders know how the network is built in a region while core and network engineering leaders know the shared platforms that carry traffic. Check each role's dates so you know whether the person's view of AT&T engineering is current or from an earlier period.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a large carrier plan and sequence radio access network builds across regional markets?
- 02What does it take to coordinate network engineering, construction and operations teams on a major upgrade?
- 03How should a telecom engineering organization decide when to modernize or retire core network infrastructure?
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