Cloud infrastructure
10 VMware engineering leaders
These ten current and former VMware engineering leaders have held vice president of engineering, senior director and director of engineering roles at VMware. A reader can learn how engineering leaders build and run their teams in cloud infrastructure software companies.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anita Jindal
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Engineering · VMware
Senior Director, Engineering at VMware since February 2020. Former Director of Engineering at NetApp (2011–2020). The profile describes experience defining and executing strategies in new and emerging technologies and delivering enterprise software at companies including VMware, NetApp, Oracle, Sun and IBM.
Anu Kirpekar
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering, VMware Cloud Foundation Platform · VMware
VP of Engineering, VMware Cloud Foundation Platform at VMware since April 2020. Former SVP of Engineering at Ascend.io (2018–2020) and VP of Engineering,Data Science and Operations, InfoSight at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2016–2018). The profile describes delivering large, complex products across global engineering organizations.
Faramarz Rashed
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Engineering · VMware
Sr. Director of Engineering at VMware since 2019; the profile says the role manages a global engineering team in the US, China, Bulgaria and India delivering usage metering, analytics, insights and billing services for the cloud services platform. Former Sr. Director of Engineering at Mozilla (2012–2019).
Girish Kale
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · VMware
Senior Director of Engineering at VMware since March 2023. Former Senior Director Research & Development (2022–2023), Director Research and Development (2016–2022) and Senior Manager Development (2013–2016) at VMware, and Vice President Product Management at Nevis Networks (2012–2013).
Karen Aghajanyan
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · VMware
VP of Engineering at VMware since 2022, on a profile based in Yerevan, Armenia. The profile also lists Senior Director of R&D at VMware as a current role since 2018, and Director R&D (2014–2018), Senior R&D Manager (2012–2014) and R&D Manager (2010–2012) at VMware.
Subrahmanyam Manuguri
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Of Engineering · VMware
Senior Director Of Engineering at VMware since January 2022, a role the profile places in Palo Alto at director level. Former Director R&D (2017–2022), Sr Manager R&D (2014–2017) and Staff Engineer II (2012–2014) at VMware.
Sudheer Miryala
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Engineering · VMware
Vice President, Engineering at VMware since June 2019, a role the profile places in Palo Alto at the vice president level. Former Founder, CEO of Dastratum (2015–2018) and Senior Director, Data Protection Group, Multi-platform, Cloud, OnTap at NetApp (2010–2015).
Sunil Kotian
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · VMware
Director of Engineering at VMware since January 2020; the profile headline places the role in the CPU & Server Platform group, which it says develops platform software and hardware accelerators for the ESXi kernel and hypervisor. Other VMware roles listed are Sr. Engineering Manager, ESXi-Arm Group (2019–2020) and Senior Engineering Manager (2019–2020), and the profile lists Senior Software Engineering Manager at Intel (2016–2019).
Vamsi Gunturu
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · VMware
Vice President of Engineering at VMware since August 2022, a role the profile lists in the engineering and technical department at the vice president level. The profile also lists the role Sr. Director R&D at VMware from 2011 to 2014.
Vinodh Dorairajan
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Engineering · VMware
Director Of Engineering at VMware since March 2018; the profile says the role leads development of the VMware HCX+ SaaS service for workload mobility across multi-cloud. Former Architect at CloudVelox (2015–2018) and Senior SDE Lead at Microsoft (2013–2015).
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Match the leader's product area to your question, since cloud platform, networking and security, and SaaS service teams face different engineering tradeoffs. Check whether the person's VMware engineering role is current or former before relying on it for how the company works today.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you organize engineering teams that ship both on-premises software and cloud services?
- 02How do you run a global engineering team across several countries without slowing delivery?
- 03What changes in engineering practice when an infrastructure product moves to a SaaS model?
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