Kris Bhandare

Kris Bhandare has over 30 years of work experience in various roles and companies. Their most recent role is Vice President of Reliability Engineering and Support at DataStax since June 2020. Prior to that, they worked at Nutanix from 2016 to 2020, where they held the positions of Senior Director of Worldwide Support Americas' West and Mexico, as well as Director of Worldwide Support.

From 2012 to 2016, Bhandare worked at Apigee, where they served as Director of Customer Success, Director of Quality, and Director of Support and Operations. Before Apigee, they worked at IBM from 2003 to 2012 in several roles, including Senior Software Client Architect, Senior Software Architect assigned to eBay/PayPal, Program Manager, Senior Architect of Business Transformation, and Enterprise Architect Team Lead.

Earlier in their career, Bhandare held roles at BroadVision Inc as Director of Technology Alliances, Senior Design Architect of Technology Alliances, and Senior Principal Consultant from 1999 to 2003. Kris also worked at Lucent Technologies, Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer from 1998 to 1999, Octel Communications as a Software Engineer from 1990 to 1998, and Crompton Greaves as a Manufacturing Engineer in 1986.

Throughout their career, Bhandare has demonstrated expertise in areas such as software development, customer support, architecture, and operations.

Kris Bhandare has an extensive education history. Kris obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree with a focus on Marketing and Finance from Santa Clara University, where they studied from 1995 to 1999. Prior to that, from 1987 to 1989, Kris pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science at Villanova University. Their undergraduate studies included earning a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Electronics and Communications from Karnatak University, where they attended from 1982 to 1986. Additionally, Kris Bhandare furthered their education by completing a program called "Leading Through Personal Excellence" at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, although specific dates for this program were not provided.