Summary
Chiradeep Vittal is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over 20 years of experience building cloud, networking, and security-first platforms, now focused on generative AI for cybersecurity. He has led hands-on engineering and product efforts at Lendistry, driving platform, DevOps/DevSecOps, and a modern fintech data stack on AWS while still contributing to code, incident response, and security architecture. As a founding engineer of Cloud.com and a long-time Citrix Distinguished Engineer, he helped incubate and shepherd Apache CloudStack and presented widely on containers, orchestration and cloud networking. He combines deep systems and embedded-systems roots with modern cloud-native expertise, enabling pragmatic designs that scale from datacenter internals to SaaS. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends leadership, open-source stewardship, and a habit of staying in the codebase—an uncommon trait for a CTO. His current work marries LLM-driven detection with hardened cloud security practices, reflecting both product and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Computing Science, M.S, Computing Science at University of Alberta
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Hindi