Senior Technical Director · Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D · Nutanix
Kees Baggerman.
Engineering leadership that turns platform performance into revenue: proving, tuning, and accelerating how enterprise infrastructure and AI workloads win.
Organization
6 direct R&D · 20+ matrixed
Footprint
3 continents
Intellectual property
Five granted U.S. patents, two pending, including an active filing on ML-driven GPU selection
Thought leadership
Writing since 2011
Base
Netherlands · global remit
I build and lead the global function that proves, tunes, and accelerates how Nutanix wins enterprise infrastructure and AI workloads: a six-engineer R&D core directing a 20-person matrixed organization across product management, marketing, field events, alliances, and sales, turning measured performance evidence into shorter sales cycles and patented product capability. That coverage extends into the healthcare vertical, where clinical workspace delivery meets the same performance discipline.
Before Nutanix, I spent years in the trenches doing migrations and implementations of Microsoft and Citrix infrastructures — RDS, XenApp, XenDesktop, NetScaler, PVS — often paired with RES Workspace Manager. That hands-on background still shapes how I approach infrastructure challenges today.
I’ve been blogging here since 2011 as a way to document what I learn and share it with the community. If something took me a while to figure out, chances are someone else will run into it too.
“Evidence beats opinion. Teams I run instrument everything, publish what they find, and let measured truth set the roadmap.”
— Kees Baggerman · Leadership philosophy
GTM impact
The Velocity Engine
A fully automated validation testbed for the platform's performance claims: workloads, benchmarks, and reference configurations run continuously, with reporting that extends from engineering telemetry to field-ready evidence.
- Automated, repeatable validation replaces one-off proof-of-concept labor
- Extended reporting turns raw benchmarks into customer-facing proof
- Eliminates enterprise sales friction: performance questions answered before they're asked
Intellectual property
GPU & AI Infrastructure IP
Granted U.S. patents in GPU resource allocation, image management, and workload metrics for networked virtualization. The same capability now underpins AI and graphics workloads, including an active filing on ML-driven GPU selection.
- 5 patents granted, 2 continuations pending
- Full portfolio enumerated in § 06 below
Where I operate
Executive Leadership
- Org design across direct and matrixed teams
- Cross-functional leadership: PM, marketing, field events, alliances, sales
- Executive stakeholder management
GPU & AI Infrastructure
- GPU acceleration and AI workload performance
- Hybrid multicloud and HCI architecture
- EUC and digital workspace fabrics
- Vertical coverage: healthcare clinical workspaces
Automation Engineering
- Automated validation testbeds
- Benchmarking and telemetry pipelines
- Reference architecture as code
Omnissa Insiders Award
2025
NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor (NEPA)
2017 – present
Citrix Technology Professional (CTP)
2015 – end of program
VMware vExpert
2011 – 2018
RES RSVP
RSVP 2010–2016 · end of program
RS MVP for 2011
Dutch Citrix User Group
Co-founder & board member
GPU resource usage display and dynamic GPU resource allocation in a networked virtualization system
GPU resource usage display and dynamic GPU resource allocation in a networked virtualization system (continuation)
Automatic graphics processing unit selection based on known configuration states (continuation-in-part)
Seamless Integration: Nutanix + Citrix Transform End-User Computing Breakout
Nutanix .NEXT 2026 · McCormick Place, Chicago, IL
Protect the Workload: How Nutanix Simplifies Disaster Recovery for EUC Breakout
Nutanix .NEXT 2026 · McCormick Place, Chicago, IL
End User Computing Deep Dive: Architect a Robust Solution with Nutanix and Citrix Breakout
Nutanix .NEXT 2025 · Washington D.C. · w/ Jarian Gibson
Omnissa and Nutanix: Redefining Proactive EUC Operations Breakout
Nutanix .NEXT on Tour · London, UK · w/ David Brett
Nutanix .NEXT 2024 Conference
Nutanix .NEXT · Barcelona, Spain
Nutanix .NEXT · Las Vegas, NV
EUC performance optimization strategies and cutting-edge technologies Session
EUC Sweden User Group · Stockholm
The Public Cloud as One Tool Among Many Breakout
Dutch Citrix User Group Conference · Echteld, NL · w/ Niek Boevink
Nutanix and Citrix: Teaming Up to Shape the Future of Work Session
DKCUGC XL Event · Denmark
Architecting Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix AHV Webinar
BrightTalk · w/ Hilko Lantinga (Omnissa)
Migration and Modernization: Why Hybrid Multicloud Is The Ideal Deployment Model for EUC Webinar
Nutanix
Nutanix’s Evolution: Hybrid Cloud, Image Management & EUC Innovations Podcast
EUC Unplugged · YouTube
Omnissa Tech Deep Dive: Horizon 8 and Nutanix AHV Webinar
Omnissa Community · w/ Hilko Lantinga, Graeme Gordon
Unifying Your EUC Hybrid Multicloud Deployments with Nutanix and Citrix Webinar
CUGC Global Connect · w/ David Brett, Paul Murray (Citrix)