About

Amit Agrawal is a highly experienced Director of Software Engineering at Nutanix with over 21 years of experience in building enterprise-class mission-critical software products in Storage, Networking, Virtualization, SAN, and Telecom/OSS domains. He is a passionate product engineering leader who has been instrumental in driving product roadmaps, technology vision, and schedules and releases for the past 4+ years in senior engineering leadership roles. With a core engineering background, Amit has been involved in the inception, growth, and maturity phases of various products. He is an Agile Champion and has been leading a global team as the Product Owner. Amit has also contributed to Sales and Presales in APJ through EBCs, leading to large sales wins. He is an active speaker in customer connect events and has a deep understanding of the customer's needs. Amit has worked at Nutanix as a Senior Manager and is currently serving as the Director of Software Engineering. He has also worked at Dell as a Senior Manager - Software Engineering, where he was responsible for the product VPLEX, a data center appliance for distributed virtual storage providing continuous availability and workload mobility for mission-critical applications within and across Data Centers and for Cloud Service Providers. During his time at Dell, Amit led teams in various roles to deliver 20+ features with high quality and significant revenue impact (400% increase in revenue over 6 years) in distributed computing and systems engineering. Amit completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology & Science, 23, Park Road, Indore, in 1997. He has relevant experience of 25.04 years and is a highly respected figure in the industry.