Dheeraj Pandey

Dheeraj Pandey was born in Bihar, India.[5][6] His father was a government employee, and his mother was a teacher.[7] He obtained a BS in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1997.[8][9] Later that year, he moved to the United States and earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.[8][9][10]

Pandey is married and has three children.[7]

Pandey started his career with Trilogy as a software developer.[11] Later in his career, he took on various roles, among them Oracle Corporation's Senior Manager for software development, where he managed the storage engine group. He later held the positions of Director and Vice-President of Engineering at Aster Data Systems, which is now Teradata.[9][5]

In 2009, Pandey, along with Ajeet Singh and Mohit Aron, co-founded Nutanix, a cloud computing company based in San Jose, California.[12][5][7] The company went public in December 2015, listing on the Nasdaq.[13][14][15] Since the founding of Nutanix, he served as its CEO until 2020, when he retired.[16][17] During his tenure, Nutanix transitioned from hardware to a software-focused firm in the hyper-converged infrastructure domain.[10][18][19]

In 2020, Pandey started a new company, co-founding a blockchain company, DevRev, with Manoj Agarwal.[20][21] He now serves as the CEO of DevRev.[3]

In 2022, Pandey, along with his wife Swapna, gave a gift of $10 million to the University of Texas at Austin for the development of personalized medicine.[22]