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Meet Our Team
We’re a collective of innovators, problem-solvers, and doers driven by curiosity and a constant wish to build better.
Deepak Tawri
Co-Founder
Deepak ia a co-founder with the vision to provide cost effective, high quality services to emerging technology companies building innovative products. Deepak carries 23 years of experience in developing enterprise storage products and solutions. He played leadership role in Qlogic(Netxen) to develop FCoE stack in CNA embedded system. Before that he worked in Veritas, Mountain View. An IIT Bombay postgraduate, Deepak is inventor of 14 issued patents in the area of Storage Virtualization/Replication/Distributed Systems.
Rahul Soman
Co-Founder
Rahul Soman is co-founder and brings along 21 years of rich experience in development of networking stacks in embedded/host systems . He played leadership role in Netxen/Qlogic, to develop TOE (TCP/IP Offload) stack along with IPV6, ARP, ICMP, NDS protocols as enabler for iSCSI & iSER products in P3+ based CNA card along with end to end HW/FW T10 DIF based protection integrated. Before Qlogic, he worked as software engineer in Huges Technologies. Rahul had been visiting Industry faculty as well as alumni at Pune University.
Abhishek Mukherjee
Consulting Architect
Abhishek Mukherjee has 21 years of rich experience in development of networking stacks in embedded/host systems as enabler of Storage protocols.Prior to taking charge of Cloudensembler, he has worked in different capacities in Marvell/QLogic/Netxen, and implemented TCP and higher layer (iSCSI, RDMA) offload technologies for Intelligent CnA NIC products. He had to deliver embellishments to the core product platforms like ipv6 support, T10 DIF and Multi-tenancy. Before Qlogic, he worked in Hughes Software Systems.
Omkar Kulkarni
Director of Engineering
Omkar Kulkarni (M. Tech. IITB) has 14 years of experience in development and management of embedded firmware and Linux kernel drivers for network stacks and offloaded storage networking protocols. Prior to joining Startup Partner he worked n various capacities at Marvell/QLogic and worked on NIC, iSCSI, FCoE offload firmware, host libraries for iSCSI Target offload solutions for intelligent NIC and CNA products. In Marvell he was responsible for Nvme/TCP firmware and Nvme/TCP Linux driver development and productization.
Nitesh Gothe
Lead Product Designer
Nitesh Gothe is a product strategist and UX designer with 5+ years of experience building mission-critical tools in space-tech, geo-intelligence, climate intelligence, and logistics. He focuses on product direction, design strategy, and crafting intuitive systems for complex B2B platforms. He helps startups and enterprises shape product strategy, build MVPs, and scale with systems thinking.He has previously worked with Dassault Systèmes and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Product Design & Innovation from ATLAS SkillTech University.
Purushottam Thakar
Senior director engineering and operations
Purushottam Thakar is a seasoned engineering leader with 21 years of experience across GS Labs| GAVS, Nvidia, Azingo, and Aftek, where he has built, scaled, and mentored high-performing teams. He brings expertise across Networking, SD-WAN, SASE, Multi-Cloud systems, Virtual Switching, Wi-Fi, Security Gateways, Embedded Systems, GPU QA, Automation Frameworks, and AIOps-driven platforms. His leadership spans engineering, QA, DevOps, NetOps, SecOps, product support, and release management. He holds a B.E. from Shivaji University.
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