Summary
SIGNATURE HIGHLIGHTS
CORE LEADERSHIP & TECHNICAL STRENGTHS
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Work History
Education
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Prabhjot Singh Sethi

Prabhjot Singh Sethi

VP Engineering @ Coredge.io
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Vice President of Engineering with 18+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, AI, and infrastructure platforms across 0→1 and 1→N stages. Proven leader in setting up and leading distributed engineering organizations (85+ engineers) across multiple locations, while remaining deeply hands-on in architecture and critical system design.

Strong track record of delivering enterprise-grade IaaS, PaaS, and AI platforms for sovereign cloud providers, enterprises, and developers. Trusted partner to founders and stakeholders, known for balancing technical depth, execution discipline, and business alignment.

SIGNATURE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Built and led a distributed 85+ member engineering organization (Bangalore, Noida, remote)
  • Set up and scaled the Bangalore engineering office (~20 engineers)
  • Delivered multi-product cloud platforms enabling sovereign and AI cloud deployments
  • Deep expertise across distributed systems, networking, Kubernetes, AI/GPU platforms
  • Strong experience in founder collaboration, customer engagement, and ecosystem leadership

CORE LEADERSHIP & TECHNICAL STRENGTHS

Leadership & Strategy

  • Engineering org design & scaling
  • Distributed team leadership
  • Hiring, mentoring & performance management
  • Platform & roadmap ownership
  • Founder & executive collaboration

Platforms & Architecture

  • Cloud-native IaaS / PaaS platforms
  • Kubernetes & multi-tenant control planes
  • AI & GPU orchestration platforms
  • SDN, networking & storage systems

Execution Excellence

  • Agile delivery at scale
  • DevOps, CI/CD & release governance
  • Reliability, observability & SRE practices
  • Cost optimization & capacity planning

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

VP Engineering

Coredge.io
09.2021 - 03.2025
  • Set up and led the Bangalore engineering office, building a ~20-member core team
  • Owned and led an 85+ person distributed engineering organization across Bangalore, Noida, and remote locations
  • Acted as primary engineering leader responsible for org structure, delivery accountability, and execution culture

Platform & Product Ownership

  • Led engineering strategy and delivery for cloud-native platforms enabling Sovereign Cloud and AI Cloud providers
  • Directed architecture and execution of:

Cloud Orbiter – cloud orchestration & lifecycle management

Cirrus Cloud Platform – multi-tenant IaaS/PaaS foundation
Dflare-AI – AI cloud and inference platform
Coredge Kubernetes Platform (CKP) – enterprise Kubernetes distribution
CoRobots – workflow automation & low-code operations engine

  • Owned infrastructure domains including:
    Compute, Network, Storage
    LBaaS, Firewall-as-a-Service
    K8s-as-a-Service, DBaaS
    Slurm-as-a-Service, AI Inference-as-a-Service
    Workspaces & Notebook Controllers
  • Architecture & Execution
    Designed multi-AZ, multi-tenant control planes with strong isolation, observability, and HA guarantees
    Led deep technical initiatives across SDN, Kubernetes, storage, GPU orchestration, and AI workloads
    Established DevOps pipelines, release governance, incident response, and SRE practices across teams
    Balanced velocity, reliability, and cost efficiency for CSP-grade deployments
  • Customer & Market Impact
    Worked directly with enterprise and sovereign cloud customers on production adoption
    Supported pre-sales, solution architecture, and escalations
    Represented Coredge at industry events and customer forums in India and the US

Engineer

Aarna Networks
01.2021 - 09.2021
  • Contributed to Private 5G and Super 5G blueprints under Linux Foundation projects (Akraino, ONAP)
  • Delivered solutions using Free5GC and Magma Core
  • Represented Aarna in Linux Foundation communities
  • Extended Intel’s EMCO for hybrid and remote edge orchestration

Technical Steering Committee Member

Linux Foundation
02.2019 - 12.2020
  • Chaired Technical Steering Committee for Tungsten Fabric
  • Led governance, roadmap planning, and community operations
  • Represented the project at global open-source events
  • Worked with enterprises to drive adoption and new use cases

Chief Architect

ATSgen
03.2017 - 11.2020
  • Built and led ATS India engineering team
  • Headed SDN and cloud-native initiatives across Tungsten Fabric, OpenNESS, VPP, Network Service Mesh
  • Led innovation and customer-facing architecture for telco and enterprise clients
  • Delivered multiple cloud-native and SDN solutions adopted by customers

Software Engineer

Nexius
11.2016 - 02.2017

Staff Engineer - SDN

Juniper Networks
11.2012 - 11.2016

Vice President of Engineering

Kluisz.ai
Bangalore
06.2025 - 10.2025
  • Owned end-to-end engineering execution for a 0→1 AI Cloud platform, acting as founding VP Engineering
  • Defined platform architecture, engineering roadmap, and delivery milestones for India-focused AI cloud offerings
  • Built and mentored a lean, high-impact engineering team, establishing ownership culture and rapid iteration practices
  • Designed core platform components including:
    Object storage
    Compute orchestration
    GPU resource management
    Multi-tenant control plane
    Model serving and inference workflows
  • Introduced AI-assisted engineering practices (code generation, infra automation, intelligent CI/CD, model-driven alerting)
  • Established architecture guardrails for security, scalability, cost efficiency, and multi-AZ deployments
  • Worked closely with founders, partners, and early customers to align product direction with market needs

Member of Technical Staff

Aruba Networks
07.2010 - 10.2012

Member of Technical Staff - EX Platform

Juniper Networks
12.2007 - 07.2010

Education

B.Tech - Production & Industrial

IIT Roorkee

Skills

Strategic planning & direction

Timeline

Vice President of Engineering

Kluisz.ai
06.2025 - 10.2025

VP Engineering

Coredge.io
09.2021 - 03.2025

Engineer

Aarna Networks
01.2021 - 09.2021

Technical Steering Committee Member

Linux Foundation
02.2019 - 12.2020

Chief Architect

ATSgen
03.2017 - 11.2020

Software Engineer

Nexius
11.2016 - 02.2017

Staff Engineer - SDN

Juniper Networks
11.2012 - 11.2016

Member of Technical Staff

Aruba Networks
07.2010 - 10.2012

Member of Technical Staff - EX Platform

Juniper Networks
12.2007 - 07.2010

B.Tech - Production & Industrial

IIT Roorkee
Prabhjot Singh SethiVP Engineering @ Coredge.io