Komprise Hires New VP of Engineering to Lead Unstructured Data Management Innovation for Enterprise AI
Puneet Agarwal brings 20+ years of technical leadership at IT infrastructure companies including AWS, Nutanix and Citrix
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 19, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Agarwal joins Komprise at a pivotal time in the company’s history, as unstructured data management becomes a maturing, essential practice for enterprises in the AI age.Agarwal will focus on driving quality excellence across the Komprise Intelligent Data Management platform, including building out a development team focused on AI capabilities.
His career spans progressively senior roles in engineering, where he has gained invaluable experience leading teams for cloud platforms and big data solutions. Agarwal’s past roles include VP Engineering at project44, Senior Development Manager at AWS, Director of Engineering at Nutanix and Principal Software Engineer at Citrix.
Agarwal says he was drawn to working at Komprise because he saw the value and massive growth of unstructured data and the Komprise platform’s ability to solve several key enterprise pain points. “Komprise excels at handling large scale unstructured data,” he said. “As data continues to grow, Komprise optimizes storage and moves data to where it should naturally go when hot access is no longer needed. Unstructured data fuels AI and Komprise has developed groundbreaking capabilities that allow customers to deploy AI solutions that are accurate, efficient, within budget and at scale.”
“We are excited to have Puneet join us at Komprise and lead our engineering team during a period of rampant change in the sector,” said Prateek Kansal, SVP, engineering & operations, Komprise. “His deep expertise leading product engineering teams in data management, storage and cloud infrastructure will be instrumental as Komprise expands unstructured data management capabilities for AI readiness.”






