Dheeraj Pandey is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nutanix. Dheeraj brings over 12 years of experience working at high growth enterprise technology companies. Prior to founding Nutanix, Dheeraj was VP of Engineering at Aster Data where he built the engineering team from ground up, overseeing the development of multiple releases of the product. Prior to Aster Data, Dheeraj was at Oracle where he managed development of storage engine for Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata. Dheeraj holds a Masters in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Graduate Fellow, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, where he was adjudged the “Best All Rounder Among All Graduating Students in All Disciplines.