How PMs can win with open source - Dan Ciruli (Product Leader, Nutanix)

About this episode

Dan Ciruli discusses his journey in product management and the impact of open source technologies.

Dan Ciruli is VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix. A computer science graduate of UC Berkeley, Dan spent a decade in engineering before pivoting to product management in 2003, a role that barely had a name when he started. Since then he has held product leadership positions at EMC and Google, where he was part of the team that helped create Kubernetes and open source Google's cloud infrastructure. He was a founding member of the OpenAPI Initiative and a steering committee membe...

People in this episode

Guest: Dan Ciruli

Topics covered

• open source
• product management
• cloud infrastructure
• Kubernetes
• technology leadership

Keywords

• open source
• product management
• cloud native
• Kubernetes
• Nutanix

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nutanix, EMC, Google, OpenAPI Initiative

Products: Kubernetes

Places: UC Berkeley

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