Kunal Mukerjee

About Kunal Mukerjee

This list gives an idea of my technical breadth, depth and product innovation: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/kunal-mukerjee.At Splunk@Cisco I’m leading forward looking technical innovation. At Docusign, my leadership as Chief Architect was pivotal in launching the transformative Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform, addressing complex business challenges at scale. At Microsoft, I spearheaded research and product innovation for multiple lines of business, the most successful one being Power Platform spanning multiple services starting with Power BI, bear testament to my expertise in bringing groundbreaking technologies to market that result in significant bottom line impact for the company and its shareholders.My skill set encompasses R&D on AI (not for AI’s sake but to solve real business problems ); massive scale and high performance systems on public clouds, data-centric apps and services including databases and latency-critical algorithms - these have been my core contribution in my roles at Splunk, Microsoft and DocuSign. In each case I have delivered technologies years before their time and grown high performing teams to sustainably run billion dollar businesses - sometimes starting from the whiteboard.

Experience

1. CTO, Splunk (a Cisco Company)

   Cisco

   Nov 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Spearheading forward-looking technical innovation and the unification of Splunk/Cisco\'s product architecture.

Education

• University of Central Florida

  Ph.D., Computer Science (Data Compression)

  1993 — 1999

• University of Warwick

  B.Eng. (First class with Honors), Computer Systems Engineering

  1990 — 1993

Skills

• Architecture
• Distributed Systems
• Sql
• Cloud Computing
• Algorithms
• Machine Learning
• Scalability
• Research