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Vinay Kumar

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Chief Product and Technology Officer at DigitalOcean

Seattle, Washington, United States

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About

Vinay Kumar is Chief Product and Technology Officer at DigitalOcean. He joined Oracle in 2015 as a founding member of its Seattle-based cloud engineering team, where he led product work on foundational Oracle Cloud services, developed the universal credits commercial model, and oversaw integrations with partners including HashiCorp, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and VMware. Before Oracle, he led product management for AWS storage services, including Elastic Block Store and Simple Storage Service.

Experience

  1. DigitalOceanChief Product and Technology Officercurrent2026 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
  2. OracleSenior Vice President, Cloud Engineeringcurrent2015 — present
  3. OracleSenior Vice President of Product Development, Oracle2025 — 2026Seattle, Washington, United States
  4. Amazon Web ServicesManager, Product Management, AWS2013 — 2015Seattle, WA
  5. Akamai TechnologiesProduct Manager2012 — 2013Cambridge, MA
  6. EMCPrincipal Product Manager2008 — 2012Hopkinton, MA
  7. EMCEngineering Manager2004 — 2008Westborough, MA

Skills & more

Product Management76Cloud Computing99Marketing Strategy5Business Strategy20Customer Presentations4Pricing Strategy5Product Launches4Data Center20Product Launch14Virtualization23Go-to-market Strategy12Product Marketing7
+9 moreStorageCompetitive AnalysisSaaSstrategyRoadmapChannel SupportStrategyManagementLeadership

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Colleagues at DigitalOcean

Brady Mickelsen
Chief Legal and Administrative Officer at DigitalOcean
Kevin Van Gundy
Chief Revenue Officer at DigitalOcean
Leo Leung
Chief Marketing Officer at DigitalOcean
Matt Steinfort
Chief Financial Officer at DigitalOcean
Paddy Srinivasan
Chief Executive Officer at DigitalOcean

Frequently asked questions

Who is Vinay Kumar?
Vinay Kumar is Chief Product and Technology Officer at DigitalOcean. He joined Oracle in 2015 as a founding member of its Seattle-based cloud engineering team, where he led product work on foundational Oracle Cloud services, developed the universal credits commercial model, and oversaw integrations with partners including HashiCorp, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and VMware. Before Oracle, he led product management for AWS storage services, including Elastic Block Store and Simple Storage Service.
Where does Vinay Kumar work?
Vinay Kumar is Chief Product and Technology Officer at DigitalOcean.
Where did Vinay Kumar go to school?
Vinay Kumar studied at Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business (MBA); Siddaganga Institute Of Technology (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering).

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