Aaditya Sood

Surge Venture Partner

2023 - Current

Early and mid-stage investor with a focus on DevTools, CloudTech, Enterprise & SaaS. I truly believe the Indian B2B builder story is just getting started. I put money where my mouth is by moving back from Silicon Valley to Bangalore. So much raw talent, energy, ambition! So if you have a cool idea which solves for Developer Experience (DX), Enterprise SaaS or Infrastructure hit me up! Happy to chat, love talking to tech, product, design & GTM people.

Surge Venture Partner

2022 - 2023

Early and mid-stage investor with a focus on DevTools, CloudTech, Enterprise & SaaS. I truly believe the Indian B2B builder story is just getting started. I put money where my mouth is by moving back from Silicon Valley to Bangalore. So much raw talent, energy, ambition! So if you have a cool idea which solves for Developer Experience (DX), Enterprise SaaS or Infrastructure hit me up! Happy to chat, love talking to tech, product, design & GTM people.

VP & GM, Calm & Karbon

2019 - 2021

I’m the VP & GM for Nutanix Calm (Automation, DevOps & multi-cloud control plane) and Nutanix Karbon (fully managed Kubernetes on Nutanix with PaaS services). My teams are distributed between San Jose, Paris & Bangalore. I run Product, Design, Engineering and Sales for these two products, with dotted line into Marketing.

VP & GM, Calm

2018 - 2019

I manage the Cloud Automation team, building Application Centric Automation for multi-cloud. I'm directly responsible for Product, Engineering and UI/UX functions in Nutanix Calm; plus own the P&L for the Calm division. https://www.nutanix.com/calm/ for the gory details!

Sr Director, Eng & Products

2016 - 2018

Calm.io was acquired by @Nutanix Inc. I run the Cloud Automation team, bringing in Application Centric Automation from Calm.io into Nutanix Calm. I'm responsible for Product, Engineering and UI/UX functions in Nutanix Calm.

CEO, CTO & Co-founder

2014 - 2016

Involved from product conceptualization stage to execution, sales, marketing and management. Acquired by Nutanix Inc

CTO & Co-founder

2008 - 2014

Co-founder and CTO. Founded Idea Device with Saju Pillai, as a bootstrapped startup. We built an Enterprise grade automation platform for automating IT & business activities and named it Epsilon. Completely agentless with full-interop with all existing scripting and automation in-place, it worked over all standard protocols (SSH, PowerShell, APIs, telnet). Epsilon's first customer was National Stock Exchange where it automated almost all of their Data Center operations (health checks, deployment, network checks, self-service, error recovery, clearing & settlement). Other customers included NSDL, Asian Paints, Wipro, TCS, Happiest Minds. Raised a seed round with Sequoia Capital, followed by Series A in 2013. (Rebranded as Calm.io later on)

Senior Software Engineer

2007 - 2008

Employee#1, also Engineer#1 Pentaur set out to build a management plane for Oracle Fusion. We kind of got sidetracked into building a social network backend for Crowdfactory (a US based startup, acquired by Marketo). Most importantly, I met my co-founder for Idea Device at Pentaur - Saju Pillai!

Senior Software Engineer

2006 - 2007

Audio & Multimedia Search, Paranoids

Senior Software Engineer

2004 - 2006

A startup, focusing on Teleradiology. I was an early hire at Erudent. As a part of 3 member engineering team we built a tele-radiology solution to allow radiologists remote access into CT/MRI/X-Ray imagining → This involved building a DICOM workstation from scratch and getting DICOM data into it over dialup lines. I was responsible for the image streaming server, network protocols, lossless medical image compression, computation engine, the frontend client (except for the icky C# bits), the web server interface — plus running the version control servers (subversion), the test infrastructure & the build infrastructure. **Most importantly, I got all the developers hooked onto Emacs** Tech Stack: C++, MySQL, Windows, Python (pylons) Architecture: Client-Server over 56kbps dial-up lines; Event driven asynchronous threads & processes with zero shared state and message passing paradigm, essentially microservices! Had tons of fun, wrote shitload of code & made great friends!

Software Engineer

2002 - 2004