Prior to joining Aricent, Ezhirpavai worked at the government aided telecommunication organization C-DoT. At Aricent, she has played a key role in development of software framework solutions like SS7/Sigtran stacks, VoIP stacks and has contributed to IETF specs for SCTP (RFC 4960). Pavai has lead various projects and led new product conception for clients, while working closely with engineering and business teams.

As part of her previous role in Aricent Innovation team, Pavai was instrumental in enabling some of Aricent's most successful software frameworks and solutions. Most recently, she has been involved in creating virtualized solutions and creating stateless solutions for a truly NFV based solutions at Aricent. Pavai has authored many articles in leading publications, and has represented Aricent at various international conferences.