His work has been recognized by
numerous outlets, including the New
York Times. In 2016, he was selected to
the Forbes 30 Under 30 List, which
features entrepreneurs and leaders in
business and technology from around
the world.
Before IBM, Tarun has worked in
various positions in design, technical
consulting, and web development. He
is a proud Indiana University alumnus,
with degrees in cognitive science and
human-computer interaction design.
“ We have developed Grok to
respond to the pressure DevOps
has within businesses ”
has delivered user-centered solutions to
start-ups and enterprise companies
within a wide variety of industries that
leverage cloud technologies to deliver
innovation to their clients. Tarun’s
perspectives and work have been
featured in major news publications,
including the New York Times,
CIO.com, Tech.Co and Forbes.
Tarun joined Grok as a co-founder in
2016 to manage design and
development teams to deliver
compelling user experiences for
businesses managing their cloud
workloads. Currently, he runs product,
design and development for Grok.
Previously, Tarun led multi-
disciplinary product development
teams within IBM’s $9 billion cloud
business. Tarun was a pioneer in
designing IBM’s cloud developer
platform, Bluemix. It has since become
the largest open-source cloud platform
in the world. He joined IBM in 2013 as
part of the company’s first wave of
designers, which is now 1,000-strong.
Providing Data-driven Insights
across Multiple Contexts
Within hours of setup, Grok provides
data-driven insights across multiple
contexts, from application performance
metrics to infrastructure health. These
insights provide a crucial trigger for
creating self-healing cloud services,
reducing mean time to respond and
increasing service availability. Grok
believes in the long term, DevOps and
IT will gain more bandwidth to focus
on building innovative solutions,
proactively responding to IT incidents,
instead of reactively fighting fires.
“DevOps has shepherded new ways to
deploy, manage and scale apps and
services across hybrid cloud
environments, optimizing the way
businesses run from core infrastructure
to API calls on the edge. Without
DevOps, we would not have the billion
user platforms with exponential
concurrent active devices on a single
network. The discipline has helped
businesses transform the way we do
work and commune as a global
society,” – Tarun asserts.
Conversely, Tarun believes that this
rapid growth and expansion of the
discipline has increased their reliance
upon it. “DevOps engineer demand is
at an all-time high, and companies
have needed to reallocate investments
in other areas to support their need for