# Prajwal Muralidhara > Leading teams in Kubernetes cluster management and impactful solutions. Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/prajwalmuralidhara With over eight years of experience in software engineering, I currently serve as a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Nutanix, leading a subdivision of the NKP team. My focus is on Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management and driving strategic technical initiatives. I am committed to fostering high-performing teams and delivering scalable, impactful solutions to address complex challenges. My work at Nutanix builds on prior experience as a Staff Software Engineer, where I contributed to the development of the Nutanix Kubernetes Engine and Microservices Platform. My expertise spans Kubernetes, containerization, and programming languages such as go, Java, and python, with a strong foundation in data structures. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Nutanix Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, California, United States I lead a subdivision of NKP team, focusing on Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management and strategic technical initiatives. Passionate about building high-performing teams and delivering impactful solutions that scale. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Nutanix Jan 2022 – Present | San Jose, California, United States Working on the next generation solution for Nutanix Kubernetes Engine(NKE) and Microservices Platform (MSP) ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | United States Part of Azure Cognitive Services group, Research and Operations for Microsoft Speech Services, Solving problems pertaining to distributed systems on Kubernetes clusters. ### Senior Software Engineer 2 @ Citrix Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, California Worked on VPN based networking library for iOS platform, as a part of Citrix Netscaler to perform runtime method selection between several API's , using method swizzling / injections. ### Senior Software Engineer 1 @ Citrix Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, California • Designed and Developed Citrix Secure Forms, an enterprise forms application for iOS platform. Developed ShareFile Sync component for the app using the new ShareFile V3 API's. Designed and Developed crash reporting library to be consumed by all apps in Citrix Secure Apps Suite (Formerly known as Citrix Worx Suite). Currently working on adding various new features (both UI and non-UI based) to this application. • Designed and Developed Citrix for Salesforce iOS application. Development was done using the Salesforce Hybrid SDK. During the design phase worked closely with Product Management team and Security teams. Interacted with the directly with customers who were early adaptors of the product and included many latest solutions like Single Sign On (SSO) along with the initial plan of the product. • As a part of WorxTasks (an enterprise task management application) iOS development team, designed and developed the main application framework (using Microsoft MS-ASTASK ActiveSync Protocol). Designed data layer using core data framework. • As a part of WorxNotes (an enterprise note taking application) iOS development team, developed User Interface(UI) designs using several low level Core Foundation API’s, to achieve pixel level perfection, and vibrant graphic animations. Also, worked on designing and implementing the exchange connector for the app. Developed using JavaScript to implement styles and inject scripts in UIWebView. Received several peer appreciations awards. ### Master's Student (Computer Science) @ Stony Brook University Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Stony Brook, New York, United States of America • Completed Masters degree program requirement, by taking wide range of subjects ranging from Algorithms, Operating Systems, Network Programming, System Security, Computer Vision and other NLP like courses. Also implemented several projects in these domains. ### Software Engineer 2 @ Citrix Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Bangalore, India • Client drive redirection technology, redirecting client drives to a remote virtual machine. • Android application development. Application for accessing Enterprise Cloud Data on mobile devices. ### Project Trainee @ Texas Instruments Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Cross Compilers and Automatic code generators ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Stony Brook University ### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science and Engineering Bangalore University ### B.E in Computer Science University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering ### National Public School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prajwalmuralidhara --- Source: https://flows.cv/prajwalmuralidhara JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/prajwalmuralidhara/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12