TK

Tobias Knaup

Kubernetes for Hybrid and Multicloud

San Francisco, California

Investor
Angel
CEO

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
DevOps
Kubernetes
Ruby on Rails
Sentiment Analysis
Java
AWS
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Security
Augmented Reality
Digital Video
Hadoop
Data Mining
Algorithms
MySQL
Ruby
Distributed Systems
Software Development
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Education

Lists including Tobias

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Based in SF

3078 people

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All Series A Investors

14752 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

Investments

QuestDB

Series A

Total Funding: $14M

Activeloop

Seed

Total Funding: $21M

Work Experience

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Nutanix

2023

  • VP, General Manager of Cloud Native

    2024

  • Sr. Director, General Manager of Cloud Native

    2023 - 2024

    Leading the Cloud Native efforts for Nutanix following the acquisition of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform.

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D2iQ

2020 - 2023

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2020 - 2023

    D2iQ simplifies and automates the really difficult tasks needed for enterprise Kubernetes in production at scale, reducing operational burden and TCO. As a cloud native pioneer we have more than a decade of experience tackling the most complex, mission-critical deployments in the industry.

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D2iQ

2013 - 2020

  • Co-Founder & CTO

    2013 - 2020

    We are the industry’s leading provider of enterprise-grade cloud platforms enabling our customers to embrace prevailing open-source and cloud-native innovations while delivering smarter and successful Day 2 operations.

YC
Y Combinator

2018 - 2018

  • YC Continuity Advisor

    2018 - 2018

    Advised growth stage YC startups.

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Airbnb

2010 - 2013

  • Tech Lead

    2010 - 2013

    Built many parts of the infrastructure including the search and AI-based fraud detection services. Moved Airbnb from a monolithic Rails app to a service oriented architecture to support company growth, agility, and better failure isolation. Lead the team through a number of challenging upgrades, e.g. from Rails 2.3 to 3.0, Ruby 1.8 to 1.9, move to Amazon RDS. One man ops army for the first year. Provided technical leadership to the whole engineering team. Managed the SRE, search, and trust & safety teams.

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Pingsta

2009 - 2010

  • Lead Software Architect

    2009 - 2010

    Built Pingsta's social network for Internet professionals, their workforce in the cloud product, and mySolvr - the open repository of Internet intelligence.

Knaup Multimedia

1998 - 2009

  • Co-Founder

    1998 - 2009

    Co-founded Knaup Multimedia at the age of 15 to satisfy a demand for professionally crafted web sites for small and medium businesses. The company was a one-stop shop for everything from web design and development to hosting services. Offered an email service with superior spam and virus filters compared to major ISPs. Provided B2B services like domain registration and hosted DNS for a number of customers, including handy.de - one of the top web properties in Germany. Co-author of patent DE10013708A1.

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Pingsta

2007 - 2008

  • Software Development Intern

    2007 - 2008

    Optimized an early version of pingsta.com that was written in PHP. Introduced Ruby on Rails to increase development speed of new features.

Munich University of Technology

2002 - 2003

  • Teaching Assistant

    2002 - 2003

    Helped students learn the C programming language.

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University of Wuerzburg

2002 - 2002

  • Electronics Lab Intern

    2002 - 2002

    Assembled and assisted in repair of electronic laboratory equipment. Designed and manufactured printed circuit boards.