About

Ganesh Hiregoudar is a seasoned Technology Executive and open source strategist with over 20 years of experience in identifying technology trends and delivering strategic business innovations. He has a strong notion towards People, Process, and Technology and possesses an entrepreneurial spirit. As the Director of Software Engineering at Dell Technologies, he has extensive experience in innovation delivery, mentoring and leadership, stakeholder management, and building R&D teams. Ganesh has successfully delivered products in Operating Systems, Systems Management, DataCenter, and Virtualization. He has also developed secondary-level leadership for succession planning. With a strong industry background in leading leadership initiatives to build innovation capacity in the local ecosystem, he pursues rigorous and practice-relevant research. His specialties include Cloud-based Delivery, Product Engineering and Sustenance, Program Management, People Management, and Processes. At Dell, he develops solutions on RHOSP, RHOCP, VMware, Windriver, and RAN for Telecom customers to support human progress. Ganesh has worked with multiple companies in the past, including VMware and Dell. At Dell, he was the Director of Service Provider/Telco Solution Engineering Leader, where he built a custom development team in the Service Provider/Telco domain. He also developed telco automation teams on Kubernetes and microservices-based architecture and worked with system integrators and technology partners to develop solutions and GTM strategic delivery. Ganesh holds a Ph.D. in Public Health in IT from the University of Mysore, an MBA in International Business Management from the University of Wales, UK, and completed an Executive Leadership Program from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He also completed an Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy course from MIT Sloan School of Management. His tech stack includes Research Scientist, Kubernetes, and Microservices. With 20.04 years of relevant experience, Ganesh is a highly skilled and knowledgeable professional in the technology industry.