Summary
Anirudh R is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and virtualization platforms, currently driving infrastructure and automation work at VMware from San Jose. He combines deep hands‑on expertise in Kubernetes, VMware/Tanzu, OpenStack, and multi-cloud AWS/Azure/GCP environments with strong automation skills using Ansible, Terraform, StackStorm and CI/CD tooling. Known for leading with empathy, he focuses on understanding customer pain points and delivering pragmatic, efficient solutions that challenge the status quo. His background spans roles in automation startups and networking vendors, giving him a rare blend of systems, networking (SDN/OpenFlow), and test/traffic-generation experience. He is proficient in Python and contributes to engineering productivity through event-driven automation and reproducible provisioning practices.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, M.S at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at University of Mumbai