Arun Krishnakumar
Sr Principal Engineer at VMware by Broadcom
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolArun Krishnakumar is a Sr Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native and distributed systems, currently leading the transformation of VMware Cloud Director into a multi-tenant Kubernetes cloud provider. He partners with VPs and execs to define multi-year product strategy while driving cross-organization initiatives—most notably a public cloud repatriation effort that saved VMware millions and supported sovereign cloud requirements. His background spans designing resilient storage and backend platforms at Cloudera, Salesforce, and Microsoft, with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, microservices, and performance-driven re-architecture. Arun is highly customer-focused, regularly engaging from specification to post-release and earning internal awards for impact and execution. A pragmatic technologist who “lives and learns,” he combines systems-level rigor with a talent for unblocking teams and shipping phased, production-grade solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at SUNY Stony BrookBengaluru University
English
Github Skills (175)
parallel10
subproject10
python10
scheduling10
vms10
ray10
k8s10
optimization10
mesos10
go-client10
api10
container-storage-interface10
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
reinforcement-learning10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
arunmk/configs
Jun 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
arunmk/container-service-extension
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
Container Service for VMware vCloud Director
Contributions:1 PR, 82 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 1 month
containersservice-containervmscontainerdseccomp
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