# Dr. Deepak Kumar

> Dr. Deepak Kumar is the founder and CEO of Adaptiva, an enterprise software company he founded in 2004. A former Microsoft program manager and SCCM designer with earlier IP telephony experience at Nortel, he focuses on endpoint management, peer-to-peer software delivery and autonomous patching with human oversight. His public interviews describe bootstrapping the business and approaching software design as an art form.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Adaptiva
- **Organizations:** Adaptiva, Microsoft, Nortel, Forbes Technology Council
- **Known for:** Founded Adaptiva in 2004., Helped design Microsoft’s SCCM/MEM enterprise management software., Contributed to the Thinkweek paper associated with Project Greenwich, a predecessor in Microsoft’s enterprise communications product lineage.

## Career timeline

- **Before Microsoft; dates not established** — Group manager for advanced IP telephony products at Nortel.
- **Before 2004; dates not established** — Program manager on Microsoft’s Windows NT Networking team; contributed to a Thinkweek paper for Bill Gates associated with Project Greenwich.
- **2003** — Lead program manager on Microsoft’s Systems Management Server 2003 team; later biographies describe him as a principal designer of SCCM/MEM.
- **2004** — Founded Adaptiva.
- **2014** — Publicly discussed OneSite’s peer-to-peer delivery architecture as Adaptiva’s founder and CTO.
- **2020** — Transitioned from CTO to CEO at Adaptiva.
- **2025** — Discussed Adaptiva’s expansion into Mac and Linux patch management on Apple @ Work.
- **2026** — Published on governance, human oversight and autonomous patching in Forbes Technology Council.

## Achievements

- Founded Adaptiva in 2004.
- Helped design Microsoft’s SCCM/MEM enterprise management software.
- Contributed to the Thinkweek paper associated with Project Greenwich, a predecessor in Microsoft’s enterprise communications product lineage.
- Received multiple patents related to Microsoft networking and systems management work.
- Authored more than 50 publications, including a book on Windows programming, according to his official biography.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Published “Four Steps To Implement Autonomous Patching And Remediation” on October 14, covering priorities, differentiated strategies, end-user considerations and validation.
- **2026-08** — In an August 24 Adaptiva Q&A, argued that organizations should focus on response capacity and systems that know when to involve a human.
- **2026-07** — Published “Automation Is Not Autonomy: The Next Stage Of Cybersecurity Maturity” in Forbes Technology Council on July 31.
- **2026-06** — In a June 22 TechFinitive interview, discussed manual coordination as a remaining obstacle to remediation.

## Links

- Website: https://adaptiva.com/

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