Makarand Dharmapurikar Email & Phone Number

Makarand Dharmapurikar is a Founder and CEO at Cloudexe Inc. based in Saratoga, California, United States, North America. Makarand is a visionary leader with over 20 years of experience at the forefront of GPU and cloud technologies. He was key member of the team that developed and launched the first CUDA GPU (G80) at NVIDIA, overseeing the project from design verification through production. He then founded CiiNOW, a cloud gaming platform that focused on ultra-low-latency streaming at scale, which was later acquired by Google and became the seed for Google Stadia. Makarand’s work at Google involved the development of GRPC and Protobuf, which are important technologies for Google’s infrastructure. He also worked at Intel as Vice President of Cloud Services, where he led teams in creating GPU cloud software and building a GPU cloud business. As the founder and CEO of Cloudexe, Makarand continues to apply his broad technical expertise, from semiconductor technologies to advanced cloud platforms, to drive innovation in the AI-first cloud space.