Portrait of Kees Baggerman

Kees Baggerman

Senior Technical Director, Performance and Solutions Engineering R&D, Nutanix

Engineering leadership that makes platform performance a revenue lever.

For more than 15 years I have worked where enterprise architecture meets business outcomes. Measured performance evidence shortens sales cycles and underpins patented product capability. I speak the language of the infrastructure stack, the engineering team, and the P&L.

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Portrait of Kees Baggerman
Organization
6 direct R&D · 20+ matrixed cross-functionally
Footprint
3 continents
Intellectual property
Four granted U.S. patents and one pending application on automatic GPU selection
Thought leadership
Writing since 2011
Base
Netherlands · operating globally

Executive impact

How I direct the function: market growth, product excellence, and customer advocacy, inside the Nutanix culture. Every decision runs through the Nutanix core values and a single test: what is right for the customer. I build engineering and operations teams that hold to that line, choosing long-term trust over short-term metrics.

GTM impact

The Velocity Engine

A fully automated validation testbed. Workloads, benchmarks, and reference configurations run continuously, replacing one-off proof-of-concept labor with field-ready evidence. Performance questions get answered before a prospect asks them. That friction comes out of the enterprise sales cycle. I own the reference architectures Global 2000 customers use to de-risk deployments.

I lead the technical differentiation in strategic EUC deals, including multiple seven-figure-ACV wins and expansions, and cut migration cutover time by more than 60% for a five-figure-seat Citrix estate.

Intellectual property

GPU & AI infrastructure IP

I bring field data into product roadmap decisions. The portfolio covers GPU resource allocation and image management for networked virtualization, including US 10,176,550 B1. The same capability now underpins AI and graphics workloads.

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Where I operate

Leadership is influence and org design

Beyond a six-engineer R&D core, I drive annual operating plan and capacity decisions across the EUC and healthcare teams, and built a multi-tier champion enablement program spanning internal SEs, partner SEs, and global technical sales. The work is influence and org design across teams I do not directly own. It scales a function past its headcount.

I set a roadmap of 20+ solution assets a year, and have developed and promoted multiple architects into Staff and Senior Staff roles.

Commercial stewardship

Alliance and vendor management

I contribute to enterprise agreement negotiations, partnership definition, and technology risk decisions with cloud, GPU, virtualization, and enterprise security vendors.

I authored the EUC growth strategy presented to the C-suite, built on joint motions with Citrix, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Omnissa.

  • Citrix
  • Microsoft
  • NVIDIA
  • Omnissa
  • and others

Executive leadership

  • Org design across direct and matrixed teams
  • Cross-functional leadership: PM, marketing, field events, alliances, sales
  • Executive stakeholder management

GPU & AI infrastructure

  • GPU acceleration and AI workload performance
  • Hybrid multicloud and HCI architecture
  • EUC and digital workspace fabrics
  • Vertical coverage: healthcare clinical workspaces

Automation engineering

  • Automated validation testbeds
  • Benchmarking and telemetry pipelines
  • Reference architecture as code

Recognition

Industry awards

Citrix CTP and RES RSVP: a member of both until each program closed.

Speaking, most recent

  • Omnissa partner webinar

    From Infrastructure to End-User: Mastering Omnissa on Nutanix

  • World of EUC Elevate webinar

    The Cloud Desktop Silicon Problem: The CPU Lottery Hiding Inside Your EUC Bill

  • .NEXT on Tour London

    The New Standard for End User Computing (EUC) in a Hybrid World

    With David Brett

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Selected writing

Data-driven, vendor-neutral analysis.

Cloud Desktop Pricing Index: $/CCU Across AVD, Windows 365 and WorkSpaces

Cloud desktop pricing pages are not designed to be compared.

DORA-Ready in Practice: What Auditors Actually Ask of Your Virtualization Stack

DORA has applied since 17 January 2025, and most of what is written about it is written by lawyers for lawyers.

Cloud Desktop Density: Where the Maths Breaks Down

Microsoft's users-per-vCPU table is a starting point, and Microsoft says so.

Featured video · 44 seconds, no audio

The series in 44 seconds. The full argument: Stop renting their VM layer.

Read all posts at My Virtual Vision

Career timeline

Fifteen years of building, measuring, and reinventing application delivery.

  1. 2011

    Established an independent technical voice

    Launched My Virtual Vision; industry answered the same year with VMware vExpert and RES MVP recognition.

  2. 2014

    Brought performance engineering to a hyperconverged challenger

    Joined Nutanix as Senior Solutions and Performance Engineer on business-critical applications and VMware migrations; EUC became the focus from 2015.

  3. 2015

    Recognized at the top of the Citrix ecosystem

    Citrix Technology Professional: peak years of writing, speaking, and community leadership across EUC.

  4. 2018

    Moved from architecture into engineering leadership

    Technical Director, Engineering: led the teams delivering EUC, database, and Global 2000 solutions on the Nutanix platform.

  5. 2019

    Converted engineering insight into company IP

    First U.S. patents granted: dynamic GPU resource allocation and image management for networked virtualization.

  6. 2022

    Built the function that measures the platform

    Senior Director, Engineering: assembled and led the team that quantifies and improves how Nutanix performs.

  7. Now

    Senior Technical Director, global remit

    Six direct R&D reports, 20+ matrixed across functions on three continents; Omnissa Insiders Award 2025; a pending GPU-selection patent application; still publishing.

The evidence is public.

Fifteen years of benchmarks, technical analysis, and reference architectures, published in the open.

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Get in touch

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