Nitin is Vice President of Engineering at Akiri. A software engineering executive with full-stack experience leading and building products in diverse technology spaces, Nitin has a track record of scaling the engineering methodology to build a cadence of continuous delivery. At Cisco Systems, Nitin served as Senior Director of Software Development for the Cisco DNA Center Platform. As Senior Director of Engineering at EMC, he co-founded and headed engineering for EMC ViPR, managing every aspect of architecture. Nitin was also the Senior Manager of Research and Development at VMware, where he managed efforts on VMware vCenter and cloud management platform services. Previous to multiple senior software development roles at Cisco, Nitin was an exec-level software engineer for India-based companies River Run Software Group, Tata Unisys and HCL Infosystems. Nitin earned a BE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and an MBA from UMass Amherst.