Vinod Gupta

About

Experienced engineering leader with two decades of hands-on experience and 8+ years of management experience building teams, culture, architecting, and developing high-performance, scalable distributed systems for Security, Machine Learning, and Web.

Work Experience

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING

ILLUMIO INC

Dec 2025 - Present

As Director of Engineering at Illumio, I lead a cross-functional portfolio of teams spanning cloud visibility, data platforms, user experience, and product-led growth. My organization builds the foundational systems that ingest and model cloud traffic and asset data, power intuitive visualizations like cloud maps, and enable seamless onboarding, billing, and paid feature activation. We operate at the intersection of infrastructure, product, and go-to-market—delivering secure, scalable, and user-centric experiences that accelerate customer adoption and unlock the full value of Illumio’s cloud security platform. I’m passionate about growing high-performing teams, driving cross-functional execution, and delivering measurable impact through technology.

VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING

RAPIDFORT INC

Dec 2025 - Present

Created multiple organizations, including Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanner, Kubernetes Runtime, DevOps, SRE, Backend engineering
Built India team from the ground up from budget plan, hiring plan, university recruitment, office setup
Lead ideation to GTM launch of RapidFort Runtime product (PR link). Native Kubernetes vulnerability scanner and profiler.

SR. DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING

RAPIDFORT INC

Dec 2025 - Present

Leading Product Led Growth strategy with Community Images open source project.
Built an open-source community with over 3 million downloads. (PR Link)
Work closely with customers, engineers, and the C-suite team to establish Product Market Fit.
Spearheaded SOC-2 compliance for RapidFort, Inc. (PR Link)

SOFTWARE ENGINEER ICT-5 (SENIOR STAFF)

APPLE INC

Dec 2025 - Present

Leading Machine Learning Platform development for Fraud and Risk Analysis group, team of 20+ engineers. Spearheaded hybrid cloud strategy of services between On-Prem DataCenter and AWS.
Responsible for spearheading organization transformation from Scala to Python-based stack for 20 engineers, 20+ MLE, and 10+ SRE.

STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER(/SR. MANAGER)

NUTANIX INC

Dec 2025 - Present

Led Kubernetes-based micro-services architecture for IAM service for hybrid cloud, received "Exceptional Performance” award. Cross-functional lead for a 25+ member team.
Managed a team of 10 engineers in the US and 3 in India and led architecture for a hybrid cloud manageability platform (Xi cloud services https://www.nutanix.com/xi/) announced in 2017. Received "Founders Award".
15+ patents filed for work in the above areas and several open source contributions.
Won Hackathon awards every year: 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

SENIOR STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

EFI INC

Dec 2025 - Present

Scaled system performance 20 times by transforming a single CPU system into blade server architecture, resulting in new market segment opportunities.
Developed printer simulation for continuous integration, resulting in exceptional stability and a market share of 90% from 60%.
Received MVP Award in Q4 2013.
US Patent published for dynamically detecting network devices using the primary interface.

TEAM LEAD

EFI INDIA

Dec 2025 - Present

Reduced development cost by more than 60% by a mentoring team of 8 engineers from Bangalore, resulting in business-critical product ownership in the India Office.
Received MVP award in Q4 2010, Year 2010, MVP award H1 2008

Education

Advanced Project Management

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Computer Science

National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India

Skills

Wharton MBA Candidate

Team & Culture Building

Kubernetes

Public Clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Machine Learning Platforms

Distributed System

Cyber SecuritySystem architecture

SRE

Cloud Native

Vulnerability Management