Devdatta Kulkarni
Founder at University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDevdatta Kulkarni is a founder, researcher, and educator with 11+ years building cloud-native infrastructure and helping ISVs and MSPs deliver SaaS on Kubernetes. He leads CloudARK, which commercializes KubePlus—an open-source Kubernetes Operator for multi-instance multi-tenancy—and provides a UI-driven control center used by customers like Verizon, PayPal, and DataStax. As an Assistant Professor at UT Austin he blends academic research on multi-tenancy, provenance, and scalable system design with hands-on course work to prepare students for industry. His background includes leading the Solum PaaS project at Rackspace and founding cross-functional knowledge-sharing initiatives, reflecting both product-focused engineering and community leadership. Holding a PhD in distributed systems, he uniquely combines deep research rigor with pragmatic, production-grade solutions for large-scale cloud problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science (Parallel Computing), Master, Computer Science (Parallel Computing) at University of Minnesota DuluthUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesBachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering at College of Engineering Pune (COEP), University of Pune
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Github Skills (200)
google-cloud-platform10
amazon-ecs10
python10
scheduling10
google-cloud10
cloud-platform10
k8s10
operator10
kubernetes-operator10
location10
tenancy10
sdk10
helm10
kubelet10
vagrant10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
devdattakulkarni/ModernWebApps
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Sample programs for Modern Web Apps course at UT Austin
Contributions:126 commits, 75 PRs, 201 pushes in 6 years 11 months
pythonxqueryjavascriptweb-appsut-austin
cloud-ark/k8s-workshop
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes hands-on workshop
Contributions:19 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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