Summary
Kinjal Dhaduk is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of hands-on R&D experience specializing in virtualization, cloud-native platforms, and release qualification for enterprise SaaS and on-prem products. He has a strong track record qualifying and hardening VMware Tanzu Application Platform and VMware Cloud Foundation across air-gapped, public cloud, and local cluster environments, often as the sole engineer driving complex validations. Proficient in Python and Go, Kinjal automates cluster provisioning, resiliency tests, and CI pipelines while deploying secure registries and private artifact repositories for restricted-network labs. He combines deep SDDC operational knowledge with practical AWS/Azure experience (RDS, S3, EC2, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch) and a knack for simulating customer workflows to uncover interoperability issues. Kinjal’s background includes architecting TAP qualification on TKGm and EKS, mentoring junior engineers, and expanding TAP packaging and release processes—demonstrating both technical depth and an aptitude for cross-team collaboration.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Gujarat Technological University (GTU)
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
English, Gujarati, Hindi