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Engineering leadership that turns platform performance into revenue.

Kees Baggerman

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

I build and lead the global function that proves, tunes, and accelerates how Nutanix wins enterprise infrastructure and AI workloads: a six-engineer R&D core directing a 20-person matrixed organization across product management, marketing, field events, alliances, and sales on three continents, turning measured performance evidence into shorter sales cycles and patented product capability.

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Organization
6 direct R&D · 20+ matrixed cross-functionally
Footprint
3 continents
Intellectual property
5 granted U.S. patents · 2 pending
Thought leadership
Writing since 2011
Base
Netherlands · operating globally

Executive Impact

Where engineering leadership meets the bottom line.

GTM impact

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
  • Built by a six-engineer R&D core, operated with a 20-person matrixed team spanning PM, marketing, alliances, and sales

Intellectual property

GPU & AI Infrastructure IP

5 granted U.S. patents in GPU resource allocation and image management for networked virtualization, including US 10,176,550 B1. The same capability that now underpins AI and graphics workloads, with a GPU-selection patent pipeline active.

Recognition

Industry Awards

Where I operate

Leadership philosophy: evidence beats opinion

Teams I run instrument everything, publish what they find, and let measured truth set the roadmap. That principle produced the patents, the validation engine, and fifteen years of public writing the EUC industry treats as reference material.

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

Career Timeline

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

  1. 2011Established an independent technical voice

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

  2. 2014Brought EUC depth to a hyperconverged challenger

    Joined Nutanix as Solutions & Performance Engineer, translating end-user computing expertise into platform proof points.

  3. 2015Recognized at the top of the Citrix ecosystem

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

  4. 2019Converted engineering insight into company IP

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

  5. 2023Built the function that measures the platform

    Director, Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D: assembled and led the team that quantifies and improves how Nutanix performs.

  6. NowSenior Technical Director, global remit

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

The evidence is public.

Fifteen years of benchmarks, deep dives, and reference architectures, published in the open.

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