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DigitalOcean has appointed Vinay Kumar as Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). In this role, Kumar will oversee product strategy, product development, cloud infrastructure, and security, leading the execution of DigitalOcean’s platform roadmap as the company expands its AI inference cloud and core cloud offerings for digital-native and AI-native enterprises.
Vinay Kumar joins DigitalOcean with extensive experience building and scaling hyperscale cloud platforms. As one of the founding members of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, he played a pivotal role in developing foundational services that delivered high reliability and performance at scale—capabilities critical for modern cloud and AI workloads.
His leadership at Oracle included managing large, multi-disciplinary product and engineering teams, driving customer adoption, and implementing customer-centric operating models. Earlier positions at AWS, Akamai, and Dell further broadened his expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and enterprise-grade platforms.
“Vinay has built cloud and AI platforms at scale, has tremendous product strategy acumen, understands the operational rigor required for mission-critical workloads, brings a strong track record of disciplined product execution, and will elevate our product and technology leadership,” said Paddy Srinivasan, Chief Executive Officer of DigitalOcean. “As DigitalOcean continues to expand its AI Inference and Cloud platforms targeting Digital and AI native enterprises, Vinay’s experience and leadership will be instrumental in translating strategy into sustained execution and driving durable, long-term value creation.”
DigitalOcean has established itself as a preferred cloud platform for digital-native enterprises and is gaining strong traction among AI-native companies deploying production inference workloads. The company emphasizes simplicity, performance, and predictable economics while expanding AI capabilities, including production-ready GPU infrastructure, full-stack cloud services, model-first inference workflows, and an agentic experience layer.
Kumar’s appointment aligns with this strategic direction, enabling faster product delivery, enhanced infrastructure resilience, and robust security to support scalable, real-world AI applications.
“Digital and AI natives building on DigitalOcean are developing disruptive, AI-propelled products. This success clearly underscores our opportunity to deliver an AI inference cloud, purpose-built for their needs,” said Vinay Kumar. “I’m excited to work with the team to advance the platform, solidify our infrastructure and security posture, and accelerate the execution that will drive real-world AI applications at scale.”
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is an inference cloud platform that helps AI and Digital Native enterprises build, run, and scale intelligent applications with speed, simplicity, and predictable economics. The platform combines production-ready GPU infrastructure, a full-stack cloud, model-first inference workflows, and an agentic experience layer to reduce operational complexity and accelerate time to production. More than 640,000 customers trust DigitalOcean to deliver the cloud and AI infrastructure they need to build and grow.
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