Tobias Knaup

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.