About Rafay

We believe infrastructure should be a launchpad for innovation—not a barrier to it.

Why We’re Here

The vision for Rafay is simple but bold: empower platform engineering teams to give developers and data scientists instant access to the environments and compute they need—without complexity, without bottlenecks, and without compromising enterprise guardrails.

In the early days, that meant helping enterprises adopt and run Kubernetes at scale without forcing every developer to become a Kubernetes expert. Today, as Generative AI accelerates demand for GPU infrastructure, Rafay’s mission has evolved to meet a broader need: transforming idle or fragmented compute into governed, self-service platforms that fuel innovation.

The Problem We Solve

AI and cloud-native initiatives pour billions into GPUs, CPUs, and Kubernetes estates. Yet too often, that investment sits underutilized—locked behind manual workflows, ticket queues, or fragmented tools.

Rafay solves this by turning a stack of compute—whether spread across public clouds or private data centers—into a secure, multi-tenant cloud. Developers and data scientists gain on-demand access to Kubernetes clusters, SLURM clusters, GPU slices, AI workbenches, and inference APIs, while enterprises and cloud providers gain chargeback, governance, and the ability to monetize infrastructure investments.

Our Approach

At Rafay, everything starts with user experience. We believe self-service shouldn’t mean trade-offs—it should mean speed and control, innovation and governance. That’s why the Rafay Platform is designed around turnkey workflows that meet each persona where they are: platform engineers, developers, operations teams, and data scientists.

The result? Infrastructure that looks and feels like a modern cloud—complete with self-service, multi-tenancy, chargeback, and monetization—whether deployed in the public cloud, private cloud, or air-gapped sovereign environments.

Company & Product Awards

Rafay is SOC 2 Type II Certified

Rafay has completed the System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II Audit. Created by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), SOC 2 is an internal controls report capturing how a company safeguards customer data and how well those controls are operating. These benchmarks are based on five Trust Services Criteria – privacy, confidentiality, security, availability, and processing integrity.

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Proud Member of the Kubernetes Community

Rafay is a proud member of the CNCF and a Certified Kubernetes Service Provider. Our customers can leverage our Certified Kubernetes solution, upstream K8s, and work hand-in-hand with our team of Certified Kubernetes Admins (CKAs).

Our Commitment to Open Source

Meet the Team

The leadership team brings together dozens of years of experience from leading companies such as Akamai Technologies, MobileIron, Okta, Verisign and VMware.

Haseeb Budhani

CEO & Co-founder

Hemanth Kavuluru

SVP Engineering & Co-founder

Mohan Atreya

Chief Product Officer

Karin Roeschlein

Chief Financial Officer

Venukrishna Prasad

Vice President, Engineering & Head of India

Dennis Goh

Managing Director, Rafay (Asia)

Our People at Rafay

Demonstrate Urgency

We make quick, informed decisions as a team, and understand that being wrong sometimes is ok, so long as we continue to learn
All of us are part of sales and customer success – we take immediate action to make our customers successful
We find harmony between our work and personal lives, but we strive to not put off until tomorrow what we can do today

Are Unafraid and Open

We are honest about the good and the bad, and respectfully share and receive feedback/opinions across the company
We are comfortable being vulnerable in front of our peers, admit our mistakes, and strive to do better
We take on the hardest problems that our customers need solved and solve them with intelligent elegance

Are Respectful

We understand that our peers’ time is valuable and we respect it
We respect our peers’ opinions and take the time to listen – we treat them the way we would like to be treated
We treat customers with the utmost respect that they deserve

Are Continuously Improving

We learn as a team from our collective mistakes, without egos or politics
We invest time in improving the systems and processes that are helping our customers be successful
We strive to self-improve, and we help our colleagues grow in their careers through constructive feedback and training

LIVE WEBINAR | OCT. 21 : From AI PODs to GPU Cloud: How Cisco and Rafay Deliver Production-Ready, Multi-Tenant AI Infrastructure