Pankaj Thakkar is the Co-founder and CEO of Kloudfuse, the unified observability platform trusted by leading enterprises like GE Healthcare, Tata, and Workday. A veteran of distributed systems and network virtualization with over two decades of experience, he previously served as chief architect at VMware, where he led innovation in the NSX data-center product line, and was an early architect at Nicira, helping define the standards for modern network virtualization. Educated at IIT Delhi and the University of Maryland, Pankaj is passionate about building scalable, resilient platforms that give organizations control, efficiency, and cost-effective insights in the AI-native, cloud-first era