Kees Baggerman
Global technology executive · cloud and AI infrastructure, enterprise agility, and engineering leadership.
For more than 15 years I have worked where enterprise architecture meets business outcomes. As Senior Technical Director for Performance and Solutions Engineering R&D at Nutanix, I lead the global function that proves, tunes, and accelerates how the platform wins enterprise infrastructure and AI workloads. 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. Five granted U.S. patents, two pending, including an active filing on ML-driven GPU selection.
How I direct the function: market growth, product excellence, and customer advocacy, inside the Nutanix culture.
01 · Charter
Driving market adoption and technical thought leadership so the platform sets the reference standard in its categories.
02 · Charter
Partnering with engineering to raise product quality, lifecycle maturity, and enterprise readiness.
03 · Charter
Removing technical barriers and sales friction to speed global deal velocity.
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.
Commercial stewardship
A function to support alliances in strategic vendor relationships, contributing to enterprise agreement negotiations, partnership definition, and technology risk decisions across cloud, GPU, virtualization, and enterprise security vendors.
Where engineering leadership meets the bottom line.
GTM impact
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.
Intellectual property
Five granted U.S. patents, two pending, including an active filing on ML-driven GPU selection. 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.
Recognition
Speaking
.NEXT on Tour Amsterdam, EUC infrastructure session, June 2026.
Full speaking and recognition history on the About page.
Where I operate
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.
The evidence is public. Data-driven, vendor-neutral analysis.
Fifteen years of building, measuring, and reinventing application delivery.
Launched My Virtual Vision; industry answered the same year with VMware vExpert and RES MVP recognition.
Joined Nutanix as Solutions & Performance Engineer, translating end-user computing expertise into platform proof points.
Citrix Technology Professional: peak years of writing, speaking, and community leadership across EUC.
First U.S. patents granted: dynamic GPU resource allocation and image management for networked virtualization.
Director, Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D: assembled and led the team that quantifies and improves how Nutanix performs.
Six direct R&D reports, 20+ matrixed across functions on three continents; Omnissa Insiders Award 2025; an active GPU-selection patent pipeline; still publishing.
Fifteen years of benchmarks, technical analysis, and reference architectures, published in the open.
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