Geeta Kulkarni is a staff engineer in VMware’s office of the CTO currently focusing on building data platforms on cloud-active infrastructure. She has 16 years of IT experience in a range of technologies from Oracle ERP to building integration solutions for complex IT systems and, more recently, cloud-native applications. Geeta holds an engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka. She's an avid blogger who likes to write personal stories as well as technical content.