Bio
Shruthi Karpur Rajashekar is a seasoned Senior Engineering Manager with over 15 years of experience driving innovation across enterprise virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML platforms. She has held leadership and technical roles at industry leaders including Broadcom (VMware), Cisco Systems, and NetApp. At Broadcom (VMware), Shruthi leads the Workload Mobility and VM Service teams, spearheading the roadmap and execution of mission-critical technologies such as modern consumption of workload management (VM Service), vMotion, Storage vMotion, Cross-vCenter vMotion adopted by thousands of enterprises worldwide. Her leadership has delivered significant impact to VCF adoption and improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability, enabling billions of workload migrations annually and contributing to VMware’s multi-billion-dollar revenue streams. Previously, she played a pivotal role in the development of VM Service as an engineer within vSphere Kubernetes Service, empowering enterprises to unify VM and container management. Her work has been recognized with the 2025 Tech Innovation CUBEd Award for Most Innovative Cloud Infrastructure Solution. Earlier in her career, Shruthi contributed to backup and restore services for VMware Cloud on AWS, the design and implementation of Instant Clone technology, and innovations in distributed systems resiliency. At Cisco Systems, she delivered SDN-driven solutions for large-scale data center and router migrations, earning multiple performance awards. Shruthi holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (GPA 3.75) and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India. She is also a patent holder for “Autonomous Virtual Machines” and has been recognized with multiple awards for her technical excellence, innovation, and customer impact. With a proven track record of leading and scaling engineering teams, aligning technology with business strategy, and building resilient, enterprise-grade solutions, Shruthi continues to strengthen the competitive positioning of cloud and virtualization platforms in global markets