Summary
Mrinal Virnave is a seasoned technology leader and Vice President of Platform Engineering and Architecture with over two decades of experience designing cloud-native, large-scale services for government, higher education, and healthcare. He blends human-centered design and human factors expertise with deep DevOps, Kubernetes, security, and authentication knowledge to build sustainable teams focused on developer and operational experience. His career spans senior architecture and leadership roles at Illumia, Transact Campus, Blackboard and New Mexico State University, where he led complex identity, portal and enterprise service transformations. Unusually, he began his career as a licensed architect—designing seven buildings—before retraining in human-centered design, a background that informs his emphasis on service design and usability in software systems. A tinkerer and robotics enthusiast, he is also an active community volunteer for educational institutions.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in E-business, Business, Graduate Certificate in E-business, Business at Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology
M.Des., Communication Design, M.Des., Communication Design at Illinois Institute of Technology
B.Arch., Bachelor of Architecture, B.Arch., Bachelor of Architecture at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Hindi, English, Bengali