Rupal Kaneriya
Rupal Kaneriya
Rupal Kaneriya is a results-driven leader with over 18 years of experience in Networking and Cloud Technologies. Kaneriya has worked with renowned companies like Citrix, IBM, Lenovo, and Cisco, and managed up to $10M budget for projects. She is a certified Scrum Master (PSM) and has expertise in the agile, scrum methodology of project management working cross-functionally with Sales, Product management, Development, QA & Customer support teams. Kaneriya is gifted at hiring, building, providing technical leadership, and managing highly productive development and test teams in past and program managers currently. She has a pragmatic approach to process that meets aggressive time-to-market requirements.
Kaneriya has worked on various technologies including IaaS - Infrastructure for hyper-scaled cloud - Public, Private & Hybrid, Orchestration - Openstack & non-Openstack based orchestration (IBM IMS, VMware, vsphere, vCenter, etc.), PaaS - Cloud services on IBM Cloud (Data, Analytics, IOT, Message queuing, Monitoring, etc.), Compute - VM, Container & Baremetal-based clouds, Cloud Networks – Cloud Networks - SDN (Vxlan, stt, gre, OpenFlow, etc.), NFV, various appliances (LB, VPN, FW, etc.), DVR, Legacy Networks – Switching & routing (STP, RSTP, OSPF, etc.), Datacenter protocols – DCBx, PFC, ETS, FC/FCOE, etc, DevOps - Automation development in various scripting languages, Dev-ops implementation, developing CI/CD systems for the cloud, and Solution Architecture - Solutions for Enterprise, design to deploy, and then support.
Kaneriya holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from L.D College of Engineering. Currently, she is the Director, Technical Program Management, Software Platforms & Services at Nutanix.