Devdatta Kulkarni
Assistant Professor of Instruction
The University of Texas at Austin

Building application-specific cloud platforms that are easier to compose, operate, and scale.

I work at the intersection of cloud-native systems, platform engineering, and computing education. My work spans research in Kubernetes-based platforms, open-source systems development, and teaching modern cloud infrastructure.

Cloud Application Platforms Lab

I lead the Cloud Application Platforms Lab (CAP Lab), where we study:

Platform composition
Multi-tenant systems
Managed services infrastructure
AI-assisted Platform operations

Learn more here.

Open source systems

Teaching

I developed and teach:

Cloud Native Computing
Cloud Computing
Modern Web Apps
Elements of Web Programming

My courses emphasize hands-on systems building and preparing students for careers in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering.

Student mentoring

I mentor undergraduate (CS 370 independent research) and graduate students on cloud systems research projects involving:

Multi-tenancy
Platform operations
Kubernetes systems
Operational tooling

Several projects have resulted in open-source contributions and research reports.

Community Leadership

Kubernetes multi-tenancy working group
Project Team Lead (PTL) of OpenStack Solum which is Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) project for OpenStack
Guide for OpenStack Outreachy internships

Professional Experience

Founder, CloudARK (2017 - Present)
Rackspace (2009 - 2016)

Education

PhD (Computer Science), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
MS (Computer Science), University of Minnesota, Duluth
BE (Computer Engineering), College of Engineering, Pune, India

Contact

devdatta at cs dot utexas dot edu