Tobias Knaup
General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
VP, General Manager of Cloud Native
2024 - Current
Sr. Director, General Manager of Cloud Native
2023 - 2024
Leading the Cloud Native efforts for Nutanix following the acquisition of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform.
Nutanix specializes in cloud software, offering organizations a single platform for running apps and data across clouds.
Raised $1,148,886,043.00 from Bain Capital Private Equity.
Chief Executive Officer
2020 - 2023
D2iQ simplifies and automates the really difficult tasks needed for enterprise Kubernetes in production at scale, reducing operational burden and TCO. As a cloud native pioneer we have more than a decade of experience tackling the most complex, mission-critical deployments in the industry.
D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Raised $247,250,000.00 from Khosla Ventures, Section Partners, T. Rowe Price, Andreessen Horowitz, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Qatar Investment Authority, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Two Sigma Ventures.
Co-Founder & CTO
2013 - 2020
We are the industry’s leading provider of enterprise-grade cloud platforms enabling our customers to embrace prevailing open-source and cloud-native innovations while delivering smarter and successful Day 2 operations.
D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Raised $247,250,000.00 from Khosla Ventures, Section Partners, T. Rowe Price, Andreessen Horowitz, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Qatar Investment Authority, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Two Sigma Ventures.
YC Continuity Advisor
2018 - 2018
Advised growth stage YC startups.
Tech Lead
2010 - 2013
Built many parts of the infrastructure including the search and AI-based fraud detection services. Moved Airbnb from a monolithic Rails app to a service oriented architecture to support company growth, agility, and better failure isolation. Lead the team through a number of challenging upgrades, e.g. from Rails 2.3 to 3.0, Ruby 1.8 to 1.9, move to Amazon RDS. One man ops army for the first year. Provided technical leadership to the whole engineering team. Managed the SRE, search, and trust & safety teams.
Lake Swan Properties is a holiday home rental company.
Lead Software Architect
2009 - 2010
Built Pingsta's social network for Internet professionals, their workforce in the cloud product, and mySolvr - the open repository of Internet intelligence.
Pingsta is an intellectual platform exclusively for Network Engineers.
Co-Founder
1998 - 2009
Co-founded Knaup Multimedia at the age of 15 to satisfy a demand for professionally crafted web sites for small and medium businesses. The company was a one-stop shop for everything from web design and development to hosting services. Offered an email service with superior spam and virus filters compared to major ISPs. Provided B2B services like domain registration and hosted DNS for a number of customers, including handy.de - one of the top web properties in Germany. Co-author of patent DE10013708A1.
Software Development Intern
2007 - 2008
Optimized an early version of pingsta.com that was written in PHP. Introduced Ruby on Rails to increase development speed of new features.
Pingsta is an intellectual platform exclusively for Network Engineers.
Teaching Assistant
2002 - 2003
Helped students learn the C programming language.
Electronics Lab Intern
2002 - 2002
Assembled and assisted in repair of electronic laboratory equipment. Designed and manufactured printed circuit boards.
Education
Dipl.-Ing.
2002 - 2009