Kal De
Senior Vice President, Products & Engineering, Cloud & Network Services (CNS) at Nokia
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorKal De is a product-centric technology executive and board advisor with over two decades of experience leading cloud, networking and security product organizations across enterprises and startups. Currently Senior Vice President of Products & Engineering for Nokia CNS and an advisor to Docker’s Technical Advisory Group, he has a track record of accelerating 5G, cloud-native and multi-vendor solutions through roles as CTO at Vista Equity Partners and senior leadership at VMware and Docker. He blends deep product instincts with engineering rigor to turn complex telecom and cloud platform challenges into commercially viable, scalable products. Hands-on early coding contributions—such as beginner-focused Python utilities—underscore his willingness to stay close to implementation and mentor engineering craft. Based in Texas but thinking globally (and, per his GitHub bio, with an eye toward Mars), he’s known for aligning technical roadmaps with measurable business outcomes and ecosystem partnerships.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
algorithm10
python9
create-project9
new-project9
cli-application8
cli-app8
py7
go-modules7
jsmodules7
kernel-module7
smallbasic6
ti-basic6
gwbasic6
basics6
purebasic6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kal179/Beginners-Python-Examples
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Basic Python CLI programs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 26 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kal primarily contributed to implementing Python scripts for beginner-level programming examples. They updated existing code for tasks like calculating sums and Armstrong numbers, and refactored code to improve comprehensibility. The user also created a decimal-to-binary converter, showcasing their problem-solving ability. This focused on developing foundational Python programs and algorithms.
basic-pythonpythoncli-apppython-clilearning-python
kal179/erratic-password-passphrase-generator
Mar 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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