Suresh Kumar Pallapothu

I started out in the parts of tech nobody notices until they break — racking hardware, wiring up Oracle Exadata systems, and getting paged for Sev-1 storage escalations at 3am. That hands-on grounding in how infrastructure actually fails is still what shapes how I lead today.

Nearly two decades across every layer infrastructure has moved through — physical data centers, virtualization, cloud, and now AI — have led to where I am today: running global cloud operations for Zadara across APAC and SEMEA, a 24x7 command center that keeps multi-cloud infrastructure up at 99.98%. What's changed along the way is the layer I'm automating: it used to be scripts and runbooks, now it's Infrastructure-as-Code, and increasingly, AI — I'm currently working through a Generative AI Engineering certification to bring that same discipline to incident resolution and CI/CD.

That same instinct — automate the repetitive part, stay focused on the judgment calls — is what pulled me into AI and vibe coding: building software by describing what I want and iterating with an AI pair-programmer, rather than writing every line by hand.

2026 is where I start building something of my own on top of all that: Vimura. What began as a place to ship my own side tools is becoming the first step toward a real company — two products underway already: Vimura Wealth Studio, a personal finance and portfolio platform, and Vimura ATS Studio, a resume-tailoring tool, both vibe-coded end to end. Over the next couple of years, the plan under Vimura is to build more around AI, and further out, quantum computing — approaching each the same way I've approached every infrastructure shift in my career: get hands-on with the layer first, then build on top of it.

I write about that process, and about infrastructure and AI more broadly, on the blog.