Prem Karat
Director, Engineering at Nutanix
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPrem Karat is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years driving Linux, KVM and OpenStack test automation and reliability programs, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Nutanix in Bengaluru. He combines hands-on kernel and systems testing expertise with management experience scaling engineering teams and delivery across multiple senior roles at Nutanix and prior technical leadership at IBM and Cavium. A pragmatic open-source contributor, Prem has authored tools and proposals spanning pytest-based test frameworks (mvtest), leapsecond testing, vDSO randomization for MIPS and OpenStack Tempest work, showing deep familiarity with low-level kernel and cross-architecture issues. Known for translating complex carrier-grade requirements into automated, reproducible test suites, he brings a rare blend of debugging depth and product-minded people leadership.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunications at National Institute of Technology Silchar
Github Skills (15)
nutanix10
collections10
plugin10
ansible-collections10
pytest9
ansible9
python8
terraform7
html7
terraform-provider6
dsl4
testing3
test-framework2
javascript1
flask1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nutanix/calm_runbooks
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
premkarat/leapsecondtest
May 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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