# Kiran Kumar Thota

> Software Professional, Entrepreneur and Investor

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kirankumarthota

About 20 years of industry experience in both software and hardware technologies. Wealth of experience in building complex and modern distributed systems, networking, security and cloud industry. Passionate about solving complex problems through building a cohesive team and delivering industry defining products.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2018 – Present
Responsible for networking software powering AWS cloud and Amazon.com.
Developed a data + analytics platform for network monitoring.

### Engineering Leadership @ Diamanti
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Built industry’s first container platform to allow plug-n-play network and persistent storage. The platform allows container deployment in 10 seconds with guaranteed service levels and integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes, Mesos and Docker. This platform is being used by Fortune 500 companies.

Lead software R&D and Quality teams to deliver a scalable and highly-available platform with easy to use UI, CLI and REST API.

Architect and lead for networking features - enterprise-grade networking, SDN and related technologies.

### Sr. Architect and Lead @ VMware
Jan 2007 – Jan 2015
Founding member of cloud security engineering.
Developed strategy and product portfolio in the area of cloud security with security virtualization.
Advanced research focusing on identifying key architectural advantages and leveraging to build innovative, scalable and robust security products that are easy to use and automate (software defined security) towards a self-securing datacenter model.
Wore multiple hats and grew teams across multiple BUs to develop various products.
Sr. Architect and lead for Security Architecture in Virtualization [https://youtu.be/U6aFO0M0bZA?t=1510]
      * Distributed Network Encryption (data in flight), 
      * VM Disk Encryption (data at rest) and
      * Encrypted vMotion
      * Cryptographic framework and provider library best suited for virtualization environment
      * Ecosystem enablement
Architect and lead for hypervisor software integrity (Trusted Content).
Lead Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP - an OASIS standard) for Cloud use cases and adoption. Was editor for the specification v1.2 and v1.3.
Participated in multiple standards like PKCS11.
M&A lead investigator for security and networking.

### Co-Founder @ Montana Systems, Inc
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Santa Clara, CA
Conceived and built a modern processor using Harvard architecture that eliminates memory boundedness of computation model and performs 10-100x than a traditional CISC/RISC processor.

Built a parallel processing architecture, instruction set (MISA), compiler and toolchain to build and run applications. Innovator of multiple technologies and algorithms (eg., group sorting algo) that pushed the bounds further for optimization and efficiency. 

Defined GTM strategy and vertical integration with EDA suites. Defined an efficient behavior and modeling for EDA using innovative lock-less event driven model further driving the EDA simulation tools. Demonstrated 20-100x performance boost with 100% accuracy on multiple 100M+ gate designs. Artifacts in https://patents.justia.com/patent/10503504.

Merged with Metrics Technologies.

### Sr Software Design Engineer @ PMC Sierra Inc
Jan 2000 – Jan 2007

### Intern - Software Engineer @ Rimo Technologies (SwitchOn Networks)
Jan 1999 – Jan 2000


## Education
### B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kirankumarthota

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Last updated: 2026-04-12