Arun Krishnakumar
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 (117)
subproject10
scheduling10
optimization10
kubernetes-deployment10
container-storage-interface10
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
go10
installer10
docker10
vmware10
driver10
cluster-api10
vcloud-director10
mesos9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
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
arunmk/cloud-director-named-disk-csi-driver
Sep 2021 - Apr 2026
Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for VMware Cloud Director
Contributions:81 pushes, 54 branches in 4 years 8 months
vmware-cloudcsi-driverdirectorcontainer-storage-interfacekubernetes
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