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Executive profile · Application delivery insights since 2011

Kees Baggerman

Senior Technical Director · Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D · Nutanix

Engineering leadership mapped to enterprise outcomes: I direct the R&D function that validates, benchmarks, and tunes how the Nutanix platform performs — turning performance evidence into shorter sales cycles, stronger reference architectures, and patented product capability. Fifteen years of it documented on My Virtual Vision.

Portrait of Kees Baggerman

Executive Impact

Where engineering leadership meets the bottom line.

Case block

The Velocity Engine

A fully automated validation testbed for the platform's performance claims: workloads, benchmarks, and reference configurations run continuously, with reporting that extends from engineering telemetry to field-ready evidence.

  • Automated, repeatable validation replaces one-off proof-of-concept labor
  • Extended reporting turns raw benchmarks into customer-facing proof
  • Eliminates enterprise sales friction — performance questions answered before they're asked

R&D breakthroughs

Intellectual Property Vault

Multiple granted U.S. patents in GPU resource allocation and image management for networked virtualization — including US 10,176,550 B1 — with a GPU-selection patent pipeline active.

Control center

Core Competencies

Executive Leadership

  • R&D org design & direction
  • Performance strategy to revenue
  • Community & ecosystem influence

Enterprise Platforms

  • EUC & virtual app/desktop fabrics
  • GPU virtualization (patented)
  • Hybrid cloud & HCI architecture

Automation Engineering

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

Career Timeline

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

  1. 2011Blog launch & first community awards

    Launched My Virtual Vision; recognized as VMware vExpert and RES MVP in the same year.

  2. 2014Nutanix pivot

    Joined Nutanix as Solutions & Performance Engineer, bringing EUC expertise to hyperconverged infrastructure.

  3. 2015Citrix Technology Professional

    CTP awarded; peak years of writing, speaking, and community work across the Citrix and EUC ecosystem.

  4. 2019First patents granted

    U.S. patents for dynamic GPU resource allocation and image management in networked virtualization systems.

  5. 2023R&D leadership

    Director of Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D, leading the team that measures and improves how Nutanix performs.

  6. NowSenior Technical Director

    Omnissa Insiders Award 2025; an active GPU-selection patent pipeline; still writing it all down on the blog.

Thought Leadership

An uninterrupted writing record since 2011 — benchmarks, deep dives, and reference architectures read across the EUC and virtualization industry.

15

years publishing

2

technology domains shaped — EUC & HCI

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independent voice, uncompromised