# Kumar Chivukula

> Kumar Chivukula is the co-founder and CEO of Opsera, an enterprise software delivery company founded in 2020. Previously an engineering and operations leader at Adobe and Symantec, he has taken Opsera from no-code DevOps orchestration into AI-assisted delivery, analytics and governance. His public interviews discuss the transition from practitioner to founder, learning sales, and the importance of teams and customers.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Opsera
- **Organizations:** Opsera, Adobe, Symantec
- **Education:** MBA, Global Management, University of Phoenix, Bachelor of Engineering, Kuvempu Vishwavidyanilaya
- **Known for:** Co-founded Opsera in 2020 after enterprise leadership experience at Adobe and Symantec., Led Opsera as CEO during its $20 million Series B announced in April 2025., Published commentary on AI coding value and software governance in SD Times, Forbes Technology Council and DEVOPSdigest.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2020** — Worked at Adobe and subsequently Symantec; experience included cloud infrastructure and enterprise software delivery.
- **2020** — Co-founded Opsera with Chandra Ranganathan in January; company emerged from stealth with $4.3 million seed funding in October.
- **2021** — Participated as co-founder and CTO in a January Kubernetes DevOps Huddle with Vishnu Vasudevan.
- **2022** — Appeared as Opsera CTO on the Keenan Vision Podcast to discuss Salesforce DevOps and enterprise cloud delivery.
- **2023** — Identified as co-founder and CEO when Opsera announced a $12 million funding round in October.
- **2025** — Opsera announced $20 million Series B financing led by Prosperity7 Ventures.
- **2026** — Led Opsera as it expanded agentic DevOps, Forge integrations and Salesforce delivery governance.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Opsera in 2020 after enterprise leadership experience at Adobe and Symantec.
- Led Opsera as CEO during its $20 million Series B announced in April 2025.
- Published commentary on AI coding value and software governance in SD Times, Forbes Technology Council and DEVOPSdigest.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Opsera announced a headless Salesforce DevOps platform with parallel pre-validation and metadata intelligence.
- **2026-07** — Opsera announced Forge availability on the Cursor Marketplace; Chivukula also published on agentic development in DEVOPSdigest.
- **2026-06** — Published commentary on the AI automation trap and the relationship between code generation and delivery bottlenecks.
- **2026-02** — Opsera announced reasoning AI and autonomous remediation agents for DevOps.

## Links

- Website: https://opsera.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumar-chivukula/

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Last updated: 2026-10-22