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Madhura Maskasky

Enigma · DISC type icd
Co-founder, CPO and Head of Engineering at Platform9 Systems
📍 Mountain View, California, United States

Madhura Maskasky is the Co-founder, CPO, and Head of Engineering at Platform9 Systems. With deep expertise in virtualization from her time as a technical lead at VMware, she pioneers SaaS-managed hybrid cloud solutions. She holds a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in databases and distributed systems.

Outside of her technical leadership, Madhura is a proponent of gender equality in the workplace and draws inspiration from her entrepreneurial family. She maintains a balanced life through exercise, meditation, and gardening, viewing problem-solving in business as similar to debugging code by breaking down challenges into manageable parts.

She was recognized as one of the Top Women in Cloud Innovations for her significant contributions to the industry.

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Experience
22 Years
Current Role
Co-founder, CPO and Head of Engineering
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Mountain View, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Madhura shows up

Fast Follower
Friendly Yet Blunt
Persuasive & Assertive

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting proof as well as information. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Priorities

Topics Madhura cares about

VMware Migration
Her company's products, such as Private Cloud Director and vJailbreak, are positioned as solutions to the complexity of VMware migrations, a topic she frequently posts about.
Private Cloud
As a co-founder of Platform9, her primary focus is on simplifying enterprise private clouds using open-source frameworks like OpenStack and Kubernetes delivered as a service.
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Career

Work history

10-2013
Co-founder, CPO and Head of Engineering
Platform9 Systems
5-2006 - 9-2013
Staff Engineer
VMware
2004 - 2006
Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Corporation
In the press

Media appearances

Madhura Maskasky, Platform9 Systems Inc - theCUBE. Featured in theCUBE
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Education
2002 - 2004
Master of Computer Science
Stanford University
1998 - 2002
BS
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

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