Deepak Goel
CTO, Cloud Native
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeepak Goel is a seasoned engineering and product executive with 18+ years building and scaling cloud-native, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud platforms. As former CTO of D2iQ (acquired by Nutanix) and now CTO, Cloud Native at Nutanix, he has a proven track record of turning technical roadmaps into multi-million dollar enterprise deals and measurable ARR growth. He combines deep hands-on systems expertise—from Mesos and Kubernetes integrations to CNI and IPv6 networking work in high-profile open-source projects like DC/OS—with commercial acumen that aligns product, sales, and customer success. Deepak excels at simplifying complex portfolios into cohesive platforms (e.g., DKP) and driving Day 2 operational improvements that enterprises can adopt at scale. Colleagues describe him as a technical strategist who moves fluidly between low-level infrastructure choices and board-level GTM decisions. Based in Fremont, he brings rare breadth across kernel-level networking, distributed systems research, and executive leadership.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinB.Tech Computer Science and engineering, B.Tech Computer Science and engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, (BHU), Varanasi, India
Github Skills (14)
mesos10
kubernetes10
docker10
infrastructure10
python10
networking10
dcos10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
iptables10
dockers10
bash9
cluster-computing8
clustering8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dcos/dcos
Sep 2016 - May 2019
DC/OS - The Datacenter Operating System
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:109 commits, 92 PRs, 322 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Deepak primarily contributed to the infrastructure and backend aspects of the DC/OS project. Their work includes modifying and adding configuration files, as well as implementing and testing networking features. They also made changes to iptables and cni configuration files and scripts. Furthermore, the user worked on adding IPv6 support and ensuring the compatibility of integration tests.
kernelvdiisolationpythondcos
mesosphere-backup/navstar01
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
[Deprecated] Navstar orchestrates virtual overlay networks using VXLAN.
Contributions:176 commits, 95 PRs, 145 pushes in 2 years 1 month
esxisdnoverlayoverlay-networksvxlan
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