Rahul Sharma
Cloud-native data and AI product leader. Over 10 years building Kubernetes, data, and AI platforms at Cloudera and Dell. Grew two products past $100M.
Work
2022 – Now
Cloudera · Director of Product Management, Data Services Platform and Cloudera Agents
Turned around Cloudera Data Services and grew ARR 10x to $150M+ in three years, across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud.
Cloudera Data Services Platform on Kubernetes
One platform for Spark, Trino, NiFi, Kafka, and Flink on an Apache Iceberg lakehouse, running on AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud. Customer consumption up 20x in two years.
Read: Bringing Private AI to your Private Cloud Building cloud-native data apps on premises · Watch: KubeCon North America 2025
Data analytics agents
Domain-specific agents for natural language to SQL on Trino and Impala, Python and Spark transformations, self-healing pipelines, Iceberg table optimization, and Airflow pipeline building.
Cloudera AI Inference
Private AI inference on NVIDIA NIM microservices, built from zero to one. Autoscaling, high availability, and fault tolerance for accelerated inference on Kubernetes. Grew the AI sales pipeline 10x.
Read: Bringing private AI to your data center
2018 – 2022
Dell · Product Management, Containers & Kubernetes
Owned the container storage roadmap across block, file, and object for a $10B+ storage portfolio.
Container Storage Interface plugins and Container Storage Modules
Plugins that let Kubernetes use Dell storage, plus modules for observability, resiliency, replication, authorization, and intelligent volume placement. Ranked Top 2 in the GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Kubernetes Storage.
Read: Dell named a leader in the GigaOm Kubernetes storage radar · Watch: Open Source Summit 2022
Dell · Unstructured Data Solutions
Led go-to-market for a $2.5B file, object, and streaming storage portfolio. Raised adoption of cloud offers by 35%.
PowerScale
High-performance, scalable file storage for unstructured data.
Read: Powering up your all-flash data lake with PowerScale F900
Elastic Cloud Storage
Durable, scalable, and secure object storage.
Dell · Data Protection & Data Management
DP4400
Dell’s first mid-market data protection appliance. Passed $100M in bookings in its first year and was named product of the year in Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group.
PowerProtect Data Manager
Dell’s first Kubernetes data protection product.
Read: Rapid releases for PowerProtect software
Contact
rahulsharma353@gmail.com · LinkedIn
Outside work: reading, soccer, family, and a very fast whippet named Lily.
