About Me
Hello! I'm Niraj Tolia.
I am the General Manager and President of Kasten (acquired by Veeam), which I founded in order to solve the problem of Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. I also sit on the Governing Board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCNF).
I have held multiple leadership roles in the past including Senior Director of Engineering for Dell EMC's CloudBoost group and VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Maginatics (acquired by EMC). I have a strong technical background in distributed systems, storage, and data management and, in a previous life, I was a Senior Researcher at HP Labs where I led research into non-volatile memories, Infrastructure-as-a-Service systems, and next-generation data centers.
I received my PhD in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was a part of the Parallel Data Lab. My research concentrated on distributed storage systems with an emphasis on deduplication and wide area network data transfer. I also received a MS degree in Computer Engineering and a BS degree, with University and College Honors, in Computer Engineering with an additional major in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.