Dheeraj Pandey, (IITK CSE 1997), will tell us about his Nutanix journey from its founding in 2009 to 2000+ employees spread over 40 countries today.

Dheeraj is a co-founder and CEO of Nutanix. Prior to founding Nutanix, Dheeraj was the VP of Engineering at Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped build the product and its engineering team ground up. At Oracle, he managed the storage engine group for Oracle Database/Exadata, and co-authored numerous patents in the area of distributed databases. Dheeraj is a Ph.D. dropout from University of Texas (Austin), where he was a Graduate Fellow of CS. He has a BS in CS from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Kanpur), where he was adjudged the “Best All-Rounder Student Among All Graduating Students in All Disciplines”. He is also a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur in 2015.