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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Big Data space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Eric Svetcov
CTO/CSO of Medigram
Recognized leader building highly resilient and performant solutions with security, privacy and compliance requirements built in at all levels of the solution. History of driving cutting edge solutions with embedded market winning compliance requirements into high performance cloud computing solutions that solve customer business problems. Skilled at engendering confidence, trust, and performance with both internal and external teams to deliver within specified timeframes. Applying all of my experience in Architecture, Solution Design, Security, Privacy, IT, Support, & Technical Operations to build one of the most important companies of our time. At Medigram we are building a new kind of company to solve some of the hardest challenges in medicine; initially targeting to save hundreds of thousands of lives and delay disability for millions more. Specific Achievements: 1. Startup veteran – fourth time designing IT/Operations/Security from scratch 2. Designed architecture and infrastructure for a real-time data analytics product delivering $18MM ARR. 3. Rapid scaling – drove IT/Operations/Security that enabled 5x headcount growth over a 2 year period 4. Builds Governance/Security programs – ISO 27001, HITRUST, HIPAA, COBIT, and ITIL 5. International Scale – Driving results in Europe, Middle East, North America, APAC, and ANZ 6. Sought after trainer/speaker internationally 7. Co-author CCISO Body of Knowledge and articles in leading IT/Security magazines
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About EC – Council, Medigram: Medigram provides instant insight to save lives and make hospitals millions on iOS, Android, & the web. It is a full stack system.
Peter Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Anaconda
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About Anaconda, Anaconda: Anaconda is a data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning.
Andy Milenius
CTO of MakerDAO
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
Robert Conrad
CTO of Crunchbase
Robert Conrad has been serving as Head of Engineering at Crunchbase since October 2015.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Rafael Garcia
Co-Founder & CTO of Clever
Rafael leads the technical team and is in charge of all product engineering. Prior to co-founding Clever, Rafael worked at Jump Trading, where he specialized in machine learning and working with large volumes of data. Rafael holds a BA degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard. He is a native of Naperville, IL, and lives in San Francisco, CA.
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About Clever: Clever is a digital learning platform designed for K12 schools and used by 22 million students and teachers.
Bilal Aijazi
CTO and Co-Founder of Polly
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About Polly: Polly is a survey platform that makes it simple for anyone to engage with colleagues, capture feedback, and make more data-driven decisions.
Stephen Belair
Co-Founder & CTO of Xockets
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About Xockets: Xockets builds hardware and software acceleration into appliances for Big Data processing.
Said Tabet
Senior Technology Strategist, Corporate CTO Office of Dell EMC
Said Tabet is the Lead Technologist for IoT Strategy at DellEMC. Tabet is a member of the Object Management Group Board of Directors, Principal EMC Representative to the Industrial Internet Consortium and member of its steering committee. Tabet is Chair of INCITS Secure Cloud Computing Group, ISO Editor of Cloud Security SLA. Tabet is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance International Standardization Council. With over two and a half decades in the industry, Tabet played the role of a Technology Advisor to large multinational companies. He contributes to technology innovation forums, guides startups through mentorship and coaching. Tabet works on challenges around Industrial IoT, connected vehicles, AI/deep learning, Big Data analytics and security, risk management and semantic data.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Balachandran Rajendran
CTO, EDA of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Flavio Devide
IOT Edge CTO & GTM Strategy of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Paul Warren
CTO, Cloud Platform Team of Dell EMC
Paul is the CTO of Dell EMC’s Cloud Platform Team. With over 20 years experience in the software industry most of which has been spent working on APIs, frameworks and tooling for Developers. He is a proponent of Cloud Foundry and Spring and an advocate for open source software in general. He is the creator of the open source libraries Spring Content and Ginkgo4j (for test-driven development). He is a committer on several CloudFoundry projects including UAA and Volume Services and helped design the Cloud Foundry Certification program. He is also a member of the Container Storage Interface working group helping to design the interface for storage for the Cloud.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Dan Miller
CTO of hiQ Labs
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About hiQ Labs: hiQ Labs is a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital.
Matt Jacobs
Co Founder, CTO of Clarity Money
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About Clarity Money, Goldman Sachs: Clarity Money empowers and saves you money with transformative financial organization, transparency and advocacy.
Curtis Liu
Co-Founder, CTO of Amplitude
Curtis is an MIT grad with degrees in EECS and Mathematics. After happy days working at Google, he decided to start Sonalight, an effort to improve how people use voice to interact with their mobile devices. He likes to balance work with a dose of movies and television, and strongly believes in video games as art.
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Hassan Afzal
Chief Technology Officer of Afiniti
Prior to joining the Afiniti team, Hassan held senior management positions with Deloitte Consulting, Commerce One and American Management Systems. At Deloitte Consulting, Hassan advised the CIOs of Fortune 500 companies on technology strategy, merger integration, and enterprise system implementations. As Senior Principal at American Management Systems (AMS), Hassan was responsible for the systems deployment function of AMS’s Healthcare product offering. As Senior Director at Commerce One, Hassan was responsible for professional services engagements in the Oil and Gas sector. Hassan holds a MA in Information Systems from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Electrical Engineering and Economics from the University of Virginia.
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About Afiniti: Afiniti uses AI to identify and predict patterns of behavior to improve the quality of interpersonal interactions for businesses
Stan Blanton
Co-Founder and CTO of Gradient Cyber
Stan Blanton is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gradient Cyber.
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About Atigeo, Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Ilya Kirnos
Partner, Venture & CTO of SignalFire
Prior to co-founding SignalFire, Ilya was a Software Engineer at Google (2004-2012). During his time at Google, Ilya held several technical leadership positions. He was a Technical Lead for Gmail Ads and was responsible for predicting consumer purchase intent and consumer Gmail monetization. Ilya was also a Technical Lead for AdWords Performance and Scalability where he managed responsiveness and uptime of the AdWords frontend. Prior to this, he performed due diligence on Google’s acquisition of Urchin, which became Google Analytics. Ilya was also the founder and Technical Lead for Google Prediction Markets, where he led the engineering team from conception to product launch. After Google, Ilya joined CardSpring, a payment platform company backed by Accel and Greylock Partners. At CardSpring, Ilya led platform backend development. CardSpring was acquired by Twitter. Ilya started his software engineering career at Bell Labs and Oracle. Ilya graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in Computer Science and a minor in Applied Mathematics.
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About SignalFire: SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
Deepak Gupta
Co-founder, CTO/CISO & Board Member of LoginRadius
Co-founder/CTO @LoginRadius, Securing 1B+ IDs worldwide. CyberSecurity innovator and author. Developer at heart. Infrastructure Architect.
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About LoginRadius: LoginRadius is a SaaS based CIAM platform offering Customer Registration Services, Profile Data Storage, SSO, and more.
David P. Mariani
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of AtScale
Dave Mariani is one of the co-founders of AtScale and is the VP of Technology. Prior to AtScale,he was VP of Engineering at Klout & at Yahoo! where he built the world’s largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a Big Data visionary & serial entrepreneur.
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About AtScale: AtScale is an intelligent data virtualization company that provides a single, secured, and governed workspace for distributed data.
Alex Johnson
CTO & Co-Founder of Plotly
Alex is Plotly’s CTO and the instigator of Plotly.js. He also consults for Microsoft Research and the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, focusing on data acquisition for quantum computing experiments. Alex holds a BS in Physics from Harvey Mudd College and a PhD in Physics from Harvard University. He has 20 peer reviewed publications, including 2006 paper of the year in Science, and other top journals including Nature, Physical Review Letters, and Journal of Power Sources. He has previously worked in the fields of semiconductor optics, quantum information, magnetic resonance imaging, hydrogen fuel cells, and photovoltaic power.
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About Plotly: Plotly is a data science and AI company that makes it easy to create and deploy interactive web apps in any programming language.
Jacques Nadeau
Co-founder & CTO of Dremio
Jacques is currently co-founder and CTO of YapMap.com, a Visual Search & Discovery Engine for the social web. Jacques is an industry veteran with over 15 years of Internet technology experience. Prior to leading the technology efforts at YapMap, he was Director of Product with Quigo (acquired by AOL in 2007). Previously he led product development efforts at Offermatica (now part of Omniture/Adobe) and built the Avenue A | Razorfish analytics technology and services practice. Jacques has a B.A. from Pomona College.
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About Dremio: Dremio is a data lake engine that offers tools to help streamline and curate data.
Gian Merlino
Co-Founder and CTO of Imply
Gian Merlino is CTO and cofounder of Imply and is one of the original committers of the Druid project.Previously, he worked at Metamarkets and Yahoo. Gian holds a BS in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Prasenjit Sarkar
Co-Founder & CTO of Datos IO
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About Datos IO, Rubrik: Datos IO provides enterprise-class recovery solutions for scale-out databases and cloud databases.
Harry Robertson
Co-founder & CTO of Liftoff
Co-founder & CTO at Liftoff
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About Liftoff: Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns.
Jd Margulici
CTO of Infinite Uptime
JD is a systems thinker who blends software engineering, hard science and business management skills. He co-founded VDS after more than a dozen years implementing and marketing IT, with primary applications to traffic management, airport operations, and web analytics.
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About Infinite Uptime: Infinite Uptime is an industrial IoT solution provider for improved quality and productivity in the engineering and processing industries.
Scott Yacko
Founder/CTO of SOTE
Scott Yacko is the CTO & Co-founder at Sote.
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About SOTE: Sote is building the digital logistics infrastructure and largest B2B marketplace for Africa.
Andrew Colombi
CTO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Andrew Colombi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Tonic. Upon completing his PhD in Computer Science and Astrodynamics at UIUC in 2008, Andrew joined Palantir, leading the team of engineers that launched the company into the commercial sector. Later he began Palantir’s Foundry product, growing it into a keystone of the company’s offering. His extensive work in analytics across a full spectrum of industries gives him an in-depth understanding of the complex realities captured in data. He is building Tonic’s platform to reverse engineer data that parallels those realities and supply development teams with the resource-saving tools they most need.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
David Kelso
Founder, CTO & Chairman of Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing)
David is a former YC founder, Ember.js contributor, and experienced developer. He has built & maintained products used by millions of customers daily.
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About Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing): #1 Revenue Management Solution for Short-Term Rental Managers and Owners to Get, Grow, and Keep Revenue
Troy Astorino
Co-Founder & CTO of PicnicHealth
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About PicnicHealth: PicnicHealth helps patients easily access their medical records and gives them the opportunity to contribute data to medical research.
Jeroen Cappaert
CTO & Co-Founder of Spire Global
Mechanical/Electrical/Aerospace engineer, passionate about space and astronautics. Currently Lead satellite payload and avionics engineer and co-founder at Spire Global Inc. in San Francisco. Previous work and research includes high-enthalpy flow simulation, computational mechanics and fluid dynamics, spacecraft avionics and payload design, geo-engineering, and low-thrust astrodynamics at institutions such as NASA Ames, Von Karman Institute, International Space University.
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About NASA Ames Research Center, Spire Global: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Heather Rivers
Chief Technology Officer of Mode Analytics
Heather Rivers is the chief executive officer of Mode Analytics. Most recently, she was a senior software development lead at Microsoft. Prior to MS, Heather served as Yammer, Airtime, and Ooga Labs. Healther holds a degree in Linguistics from the University of Chicago.
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About Mode Analytics: Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions.
Brad Ito
Co-Founder & CTO of Retina AI
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About Retina AI: Retina uses artificial intelligence to turn enterprise data into insights.
Lampros Kalampoukas
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Alphonso
Lampros Kalampoukas is the Co-Founder of Alphonso.
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About Alphonso, Lucent: Alphonso is a software company that offers TV data and measurement services for brands and agencies.
Paul Master
CTO of Cornami
Paul Master has over 30 years’ experience in high tech development and management in both start-up company environments and large corporations. His previous roles included positions as CEO, CTO, VP of Engineering, VP of Systems Engineering, VP of Architecture, and Director of Marketing among others. He has held positions in multiple startups, as well as larger companies such as The Boeing Company, ARGOSystems, & ACER America. Master was on the team that shipped the industry’s first Digital Trans-multiplexer, the first 3D Seismic Array Correlator for the Geophysical Industry, commercialized the first Cascaded Integrated Comb Filters IC’s and the first Smart Antenna Cellular Base Stations. Master helped start and commercialize the field of Reconfigurable Computing. While at The Boeing Company, Master co-founded a new division; to bring Reconfigurable Computing based telecommunications products to market. Master has over 100 patents issued or pending, over 35 professional publications and 13 first pass ASIC successes. He has been the keynote speaker & conference speaker at a variety of technical conferences dealing with multi-core, reconfigurable computing, FPGA, Software Defined Radio and Computer Architectures. His specialties are low power architectures, multi-core processor systems, digital signal processing, multi-media, software defined radio, wireless, massively parallel computing, & telecommunications. Master received a B.A. in Computer Science from The University of California at Berkeley, and a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Santa Clara University.
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About Cornami: Cornami is a high-performance computing company that develops break-through computing architecture for real-time environments.
Aaron Kimball
CTO of Zymergen
At Zymergen, Aaron is responsible for building the data architecture to facilitate a robotics-driven approach to genome engineering. Prior to joining Zymergen, Aaron has worked at several big data-oriented startups. He was the first employee at Cloudera, where he helped with a variety of big data challenges. In 2010 Aaron cofounded WibiData, the big data application company. Aaron has been working with the open-source project Apache Hadoop since 2007 and authored Apache Sqoop and MRUnit. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from the University of Washington in computer science.
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About Zymergen: Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Vivek Farias
Chief Technology Officer of Celect
Vivek is Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Celect. He is the Robert N. Noyce Professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School. His research has led to numerous innovations in operations, supply-chain and yield management. Prior to academia he worked in algorithmic finance and received his PhD in EE at Stanford.
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About Celect: Celect is a cloud-based, predictive analytics SaaS platform that helps retailers optimize their overall inventory portfolios.
Matt Quinn
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO of TIBCO
Executive Vice President, Products & Technology and CTO at Tibco software.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Kevin McGrath
CTO of Spot.io
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About Spot.io: Spot automates cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity and optimize costs.
Shon Myatt
CTO, President & Co-Founder of Babel Street
Shon Myatt Co-Founder and CTO of Babel Street, Shon Myatt shares the first steps that he took to found Babel Street, a technology company that provides intelligence from online and private sources that accurately detected the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks before it happened.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Don Bosco Durai
Cofounder, CTO and Chief Security Architect of Privacera
Bosco is a seasoned entrepreneur and a thought leader in enterprise security. Bosco built one of the first real-time user and entity behavioral based fraud detection product and his company Bharosa was acquired by Oracle. After his stunt in Oracle, Bosco’s founded XA Secure, which reinvented security at scale for Big Data paradigm. After XA Secure’s acquisition by Open Source focussed Hortonworks, Inc. XA Secure product was donated to Apache Software Foundation and now it is called Apache Ranger. Bosco is still an active member of the open source community. Bosco through his current startup, Privacera, is trying to tackle the new challenges caused by data explosion and liberal sharing of sensitive data within enterprises. Privacera approach is data centric, which “follows the data” and protects them from malicious users and accidental data policy violations. In the process, Privacera is also bridging the chasm between the security team, data owners, and compliance officers to provide a more effective and frictionless end-to-end security for sensitive and personal data.
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About Privacera: Privacera is a SaaS-based data security and governance platform that offers data sharing without compromising regulatory compliance.
Carson Junginger
CTO of Abode
Carson is the technical co-founder of Abode. He has designed and engineered systems at several startups over the past decade. Carson has a large technology skillset, specializing in design, user experience, technical architecture and full-stack development. Prior to Abode, Carson co-founded Pangea Money Transfer and Alpha Lead with Kyle. He earned a Computer Engineering degree from Iowa State University.
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About Abode, USRealty.com: Abode is a user-friendly app that eases the home buying process and is especially helpful to first-time buyers.
Qirong Ho
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Petuum
Qirong Ho is vice president of technology at Petuum, Inc., an adjunct assistant professor at the Singapore Management University School of Information Systems, and a former principal investigator at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research. Qirong’s research focuses on distributed cluster software systems for machine learning at big data and big model scales, with a view toward theoretical correctness and performance guarantees, as well as practical needs like robustness, programmability, and usability. Qirong also works on statistical models for large-scale network analysis and social media, including latent space models for visualization, community detection, user personalization, and interest prediction. He is a recipient of the Singapore A*STAR National Science Search Undergraduate and PhD fellowships and the KDD 2015 Doctoral Dissertation Award (runner up).
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About Petuum, Singapore Management University: Petuum, Inc. is building a platform that serves the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence
Anshul Vikram Pandey
Co-Founder & CTO of Accern
Anshul Vikram Pandey is the Co-Founder and CTO of Accern.
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About Accern, Forbes Technology Council: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Julie Iskow
SVP, Chief Technology Officer of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Miguel Carranza
Co-Founder and CTO of RevenueCat
Miguel Carranza is the CTO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Hector O
CTO of Pilotly
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About Pilotly: Enabling content creators to get feedback from audiences at scale
Shivnath Babu
Co-Founder and CTO of Unravel Data
Shivnath Babu is an associate professor of computer science at Duke University, where his research focuses on ease of use and manageability of data-intensive systems, automated problem diagnosis, and cluster sizing for applications running on cloud platforms. He is also the chief scientist at Unravel Data Systems, the company he cofounded to solve the application management challenges that companies face when they adopt systems like Hadoop and Spark. Unravel originated from the Starfish platform built at Duke, which has been downloaded by over 100 companies. Shivnath has received a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, three IBM Faculty Awards, and an HP Labs Innovation Research Award. He has given talks and distinguished lectures at many research conferences and universities worldwide. Shivnath has also spoken at industry conferences, such as the Hadoop Summit.
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About Unravel Data: Unravel is radically simplifying the management and of big data applications and systems.
Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski
Co-founder & CTO of Starburst Data
Kamil is Co-founder and CTO of Starburst, the enterprise Presto company. Prior to co-founding Starburst, Kamil was the Chief Architect at the Teradata Center for Hadoop in Boston, focusing on the open source SQL engine Presto. Previously, he was the co-founder and chief software architect of Hadapt, the first SQL-on-Hadoop company, acquired by Teradata in 2014. Kamil began his journey with Hadoop and modern MPP SQL architectures about 10 years ago during a doctoral program at Yale University where he co-invented HadoopDB, the original foundation of Hadapt’s technology. Kamil holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Wroclaw University of Technology and as well as M.S. and an M.Phil. in Computer Science from Yale University.
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About Starburst Data: The analytics engine for all your data. The fastest, most efficient query engine for your data warehouse, data lake, or data mesh.
Matt Abrams
CTO of AddThis
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About AddThis: AddThis provides social engagement tools, APIs and services personalizing websites for engagement, monetization and traffic boosting.
Anna X. Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Searchlight
Anna X. Wang is the Co-Founder and CTO of Searchlight. She is a former course assistant at Stanford University. Anna holds a master’s degree in computer science.
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About Searchlight: Searchlight is a people-centered Talent Intelligence Platform that helps companies build and retain winning teams.
Andrew Katz
CTO and Co-Founder of mParticle
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About mParticle, Something New: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Brian Sabino
Co-Founder & CTO of AppSheet
Brian is passionate about shipping software. He led Program Management teams at Microsoft for products focused on cloud data and mobility, including SQL Server Mobile and SQL Azure. He also worked at Forty Seeds and Hulu, and co-founded LumenSpark and Alau.me.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
T Swidan
CTO of Delve Health
CTO at Delve Health.
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About Delve Health: Market place for clinical literature reviews and publications.
Brian Bulkowski
Co-Founder & CTO of Aerospike
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About Aerospike: Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale.
Ryan Day
Field CTO, Platform, Director, Solution Architecture of Mirantis
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About Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure.
Ryan Day
Field CTO, Platform, Director, Solution Architecture of Mirantis
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About Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure.
Corey Bertram
CTO of ROKT
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About ROKT: Rokt is an ecommerce marketing technology that gives customers a personalized and relevant experience while buying online.
Sean Kandel
Founder & CTO of Trifacta
Sean Kandel is the founder and chief technical officer at Trifacta.Sean holds a PhD from Stanford University, where his research focused on new interactive tools for data transformation and discovery, such as Data Wrangler. Prior to Stanford, Sean worked as a data analyst at Citadel Investment Group.
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Stephen Brobst
Chief Technology Officer of Teradata
Ctephen Brobst is the chief technology officer (CTO) for Teradata Corporation. He is widely regarded as a leading expert in data warehousing and joined the Teradata team in October of 1999. Previously, Brobst successfully launched three start-up companies related to high-end database products and services in the data warehousing and e-business marketplaces. These businesses included: Tanning Technology Corporation (IPO on NASDAQ), NexTek Solutions (acquired by IBM) and Strategic Technologies & Systems (acquired by NCR). Stephen also taught graduate courses at Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in both the MBA program at the Sloan School of Management and in the computer science departments of both universities. He received the instructor of the year award for two of his last five years in the MET Computer Science department at Boston University and continues as a frequent guest lecturer at MIT and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Stephen performed Master’s and Ph.D. research at MIT, where his dissertation focused on load-balancing and resource allocation for massively parallel computing architectures. He also holds an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Brobst completed his undergraduate work in electrical engineering and computer science in just three years at University of California, Berkeley, and was awarded the highest honor given to a graduating senior in the College of Engineering (Bechtel Engineering Award). Brobst is an elected member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, New York Academy of Sciences, University of California, Berkeley Alumni Scholars Association, and the California Scholarship Federation honor societies. He has served as an advisor to the National Academy of Sciences in the area of IT workforce development and also served in Barack Obama’s first term as a member of the President’s Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), a working group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Stephen Brobst was recently ranked the number four U.S. chief technology officer for 2014. ExecRank screened more than 2,500 Chief Technology Officers from among more than 10,000 CTOs in the United States. The top three CTOs named for 2014 hold positions with Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel®. Stephen has authored numerous journal and conference papers in the fields of data management and parallel computing environments and is an internationally recognized practitioner in the area of breakthrough systems implementation. He co-authored Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support, published by Prentice Hall PTR and is working on a book on Active Data Warehousing® for the real-time enterprise. He has published dozens of technical articles in Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, The International Journal of High Speed Computing, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Data Warehousing, Enterprise Systems Journal, DM Review, Database Programming and Design, and many others. Brobst has been on the faculty of the Data Warehousing Institute since 1996 and teaches courses related to Real-Time Data Warehousing, High Performance Data Warehouse Design, Data Visualization, and Emerging Technologies in Data Warehousing.
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About Sampo Technologies & Systems, TDWI, Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Taylor Dondich
CTO of SecurityTrails
Previously with great companies like Yahoo, Splunk and MaxCDN, Taylor now serves as the CTO of ProcessMaker, building software to orchestrate complex processes inside organizations of all sizes. Taylor is a strong advocate of leveraging open source tooling while building enterprise solutions to build amazing things to empower the sole developer and the complex engineering teams. Taylor is also a LEGO fanatic.
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About SecurityTrails: SecurityTrails is a total inventory that curates comprehensive domain and IP address data for users and applications that demand clarity.
Giacinto Paolo Saggese
CTO of Particle.One
Giacinto Paolo Saggese is the CTO of Particle.One.
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About Particle.One: AI-driven commodity market intelligence
Nitay Joffe
Founder & CTO of ActionIQ
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About ActionIQ: ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
Patricio Echague
Co-Founder & CTO of Split Software
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Eric Hansen
CTO of Fluxx
Eric Hansen is the CTO at Fluxx.
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About Fluxx: Fluxx is a cloud platform that provides innovative grants management software solutions for funders and doers.
Michael Kegan
CTO of Mellanox Technologies
Michael Kagan is a co-founder and CTO of Mellanox Technologies where he focuses on using high-speed networking to improve application performance. He works on problems in high-performance computing, cloud computing, and megawebsites. He has been a leader in establishing new standards for high-speed networking, with a particular emphasis on RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and the Infiniband technology. Before joining Mellanox, Mr. Kagan worked at Intel where he managed the Pentium MMX design and the PC product group. He holds a BSEE from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.
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About Mellanox Technologies: Mellanox Technologies provides end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance.
RJ JAIN
Founder ,CEO & CTO of Price.com
RJ Jain is the Founder ,CEO & CTO at Price.com.
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About Price.com, Private Angel Investor: Price.com develops a money savings platform used for comparison shopping, cashback, coupons, price history, and price alerts.
Brenden Grace
Chief Technology Officer of DemystData
Brenden leads technology development at DemystData. He has extensive experience building highly available, mission critical systems as well as the required development teams. At DemystData he is driven by the challenge of safely linking critical financial applications with the supporting data.
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About DemystData: DemystData helps financial institutions harness the explosive growth of data to serve more customers.
Will Dayton
CTO & Co-Founder of Swiftly
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About Swiftly: Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility.
Cha Li
CTO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
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About FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Jay Theodore
CTO of Esri
Jay Theodore is the CTO at Esri.
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About Esri, Esri UK: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Xinwen Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of HireEZ
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About HireEZ: HireEZ offers AI powered recruitment software that allows intelligent sourcing, engagement, analysis, and integration on existing platforms.
Bart Peintner
CTO, Founder of Loop AI Group Cognitive Computing
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About Loop AI Group Cognitive Computing: Unsupervised Cognitive Computing Platform (HPC Appliance or Embedded)
Shannon Holland
CTO of CipherTrace
Shannon Holland is a founder and CTO of CipherTrace where he leads research and development of CipherTrace’s advanced cryptocurrency forensics tools. He has 20 years of experience in developing secure and scalable computer technology. He is a distinguished software engineer with a broad range of experience, ranging from low-level software and hardware design to large-scale application servers. Additionally, He was an early bitcoin miner. Prior to CipherTrace Senior, He was the Lead Threat Intelligence Engineer at Marble Security where he led the R&D of mobile app threat intelligence and analyzed over 2 million IOS and Android apps across various marketplaces. He also led the research and development of the IronKey security devices, including their cryptography, key management, firmware and hardware design. Shannon is the co-inventor of numerous security and cryptography patents, and produced the first certified tamper-proof, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 mobile device.
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About CipherTrace: CipherTrace is a cryptocurrency intelligence company that delivers delivers cryptocurrency AML compliance solutions.
Scotte Barkan
CTO & Co-Founder of Catchpoint
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About Catchpoint: Catchpoint is a digital experience observability company.
Andrew Dugan
Chief Technology Officer of CenturyLink
Andrew Dugan is chief technology officer for Level 3 Communications, responsible for global network technology, architecture, engineering, systems and security. Mr. Dugan joined Level 3 in 1998. He has 30 years of experience in building telecommunications networks, switching platforms and services platforms. Prior to joining Level 3, Mr. Dugan held leadership positions at MCIWorldcom and AT&T Bell Laboratories where he designed and built transport network support systems, enhanced voice services platforms and architecting next generation voice switching networks. Mr. Dugan holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado as well as an M.S. Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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About CenturyLink: CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.
Edward Huang
Co-Founder & CTO of PingCAP
Edward is PingCAP’s co-founder and CTO. Graduated from Northeastern University in China, Ed worked for MSRA, NetEase Youdao, and Wandou Labs. He is a senior infrastructure software engineer and architect. Edward is an expert in distributed system and database development and has rich experience and unique understanding in distributed storage. He is the co-author of Codis, a widely used Redis cache solution, and TiDB, a distributed relational database.
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About PingCAP: PingCAP is a developer of an open-source, distributed SQL database for real-time analytics.
Jay Larmee
Co-Founder & CTO of News Quantified
Jay Larmee, who lives in Evanston, Ill., has 25 years of application development experience in IT as well as nine years in the trading industry. Mr. Larmee and and his team have developed custom trading applications for over 175 customers, including traders on the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Stock Exchange. He also ran a software development firm focusing on financial industry applications. Mr. Larmee holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Loyola University Chicago. He has worked as a programmer, instructor, an IT executive and an independent consultant. In addition, he has taught computer science courses at Loyola University Chicago and at Robert Morris University.
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About News Quantified: News Quantified specializes in matching financial news with market data.
Jay Larmee
Co-Founder & CTO of News Quantified
Jay Larmee, who lives in Evanston, Ill., has 25 years of application development experience in IT as well as nine years in the trading industry. Mr. Larmee and and his team have developed custom trading applications for over 175 customers, including traders on the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Stock Exchange. He also ran a software development firm focusing on financial industry applications. Mr. Larmee holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Loyola University Chicago. He has worked as a programmer, instructor, an IT executive and an independent consultant. In addition, he has taught computer science courses at Loyola University Chicago and at Robert Morris University.
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About News Quantified: News Quantified specializes in matching financial news with market data.
Nathan Wilson
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nara Logics
CTO and Co-Founder at Nara Logics, Inc.
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About Nara Logics: Nara Logics is a neuroscience-based AI synaptic intelligence for better decisions.
Amnon Mishor
Founder & CTO of Leadspace
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About Leadspace: Leadspace is a B2B customer data platform that drives personalized customer engagement for sales and marketing.
Lawrence Cheng
CTO & FOUNDER of Credo Semiconductor
Lawrence Cheng has over 20 years experience in Analog Design. Prior to Credo, Lawrence served as Engineering Director of Analog Design for Marvell Storage Products from 1997 to 2008. He designed the Analog Frontend for Credo’s 28G and 56G Serdes in various process nodes since 2008.
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About Credo Semiconductor: Credo is a provider of semiconductor solutions for the data center and 5G wireless markets.
Adam Prout
CTO & Co-Founder of SingleStore
Adam Prout oversees product architecture and development at MemSQL. He joined MemSQL as a co-founding engineer and previously served as Vice President of Engineering. Adam spent five years as a senior database engineer at Microsoft SQL Server where he led engineering efforts on kernel development. Adam holds a bachelor’s and master’s in computer science from the University of Waterloo and is an expert in distributed database systems.
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About SingleStore: SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications.
Scott Vickers
CTO & Co-founder of Headset
Scott Vickers is the Co-Founder and CTO at Headset.
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About Headset: Headset is a data-driven tech company that provides a cannabis market and business intelligence solution for the cannabis industry.
Ben Hamner
Co-Founder & CTO of Kaggle
Ben leads Kaggle’s data science and development teams. Ben is the principal architect of many of Kaggle’s most advanced machine learning projects including current work in Eagle Ford and GE’s flight arrival prediction and optimization modeling.
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About Kaggle: Kaggle is a platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions and consulting.
Pep Gubau
Executive Chairman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aizon
Pep is an IT entrepreneur and has been working in IT for the last 25 years, being pioneer in Linux adoption in the 90s, cloud in the 2000s and big data in the last years. Although having a theoretical economics and maths profile, his early career was as a software developer for the chemical industry. He later was CTO & COO of an IT consulting firm, leading a team of more than 200 engineers until 2003 when Pep created his first IT company with a clear core principle: customer centric focus. Two more followed. In 2013 Pep started thinking on the next thing to work on. bigfinite is the result of this initial spark that immediately caught fire in Pere and Toni. Pep is Economist (University of Barcelona) with an engineering background.
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About Aizon: Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Nathan Oostendorp
CTO & Co-Founder of Sight Machine
Nathan Oostendorp is the CTO of Sight Machine, he co-founder the company in 2011. Nathan started his career as a controls engineer at Donnelly Corporation (now Magna Mirror) where he worked on PLC programming, computer vision, data acquisition, and robotics for a major automotive supplier. In 1996 he co-founded Slashdot.org, a major tech news blog which was the center of the Linux and Open Source Software movement. During this period he spun off several other successful open online communities including Everything2.com (an early precursor to Wikipedia) and PerlMonks.org, the central hub for the Perl programming Language. He also created the first Open Source advertising and analytics platform. He then joined SourceForge.net as the site architect and ushered it through a period of growth where it became a top 100 website globally, and hosted several hundred thousand software projects. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Hope College in Holland Michigan, and an MSI in Information Science from the University of Michigan.
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About Sight Machine: Sight Machine provides analytics platform that helps address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise.
Sean O’Brien
Co-Founder & CTO of OMNY
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About OMNY: Revolutionizing how healthcare data is shared and valued.
Sunay Tripathi
Founder, Board Member & CTO of Pluribus Networks
Sunay Tripathi is the founder and chief technology officer of [Pluribus Networks](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pluribus-networks#/entity). Prior to that, he was a senior distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems. Tripathi holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University. He has also studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Tripathi is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.
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About Pluribus Networks: Pluribus Networks is a leader in open networking and next generation software defined networking (SDN)
Yonatan Feldman
CTO of Earnest Research
Engineering leader who has built highly effective teams and products people love for Instagram, Facebook, Gilt, Greenpeace, MIT, and ArsDigita.
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About Earnest Research: Earnest Research transforms raw data into a source for business and investment professionals to make better decisions.
Karthik Dinakar
CTO & Co-Founder of Pienso
Karthik Dinakar is a computer scientist in machine learning, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. Karthik was a Reid Hoffman Fellow at MIT and the recipient of the 2015 Dewey Winburne Award. Karthik has previously held positions at Microsoft and Deutsche. He was invited to the White House on two occasions to present his research on the computational detection of cyberbullying and use of probabilistic graphical Bayesian models for crisis counseling. Karthik holds a doctoral degree from MIT.
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About Pienso: Pienso is a machine learning platform that makes it easy to turn text data into insights for non-programmers.
Valerie R. Coffman
CTO and Co-Founder of Swayable
Valerie is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and received a PhD in Physics from Cornell where she wrote software for studying the fracture properties of materials. After graduation, she spent 5 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology writing open source software for materials science research. For the past three years she has been providing data science consulting to startups, specializing in natural language processing and search engine technology.
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About Swayable: Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion and intentions
Jinjun Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Deep North
Jinjun Wang is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Deep North.
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About Deep North: Deep North is an Analytics and AI company focused on providing insights for the physical world.
Ledion Bitincka
Co-Founder & CTO of Cribl
Ledion Bitinck is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Cribl. He was the Advanced Development Architect at Splunk and the Founder and Systems Engineer of Triangulus Communications before that.
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About Cribl: Cribl is an observability pipeline company that provides administrators control over their data in motion.
Fang Yu
Co-founder & CTO of DataVisor
CTO and Co-Founder of DataVisor. Fang’s work focuses on “big-data for security.” Over the past 10 years, she has been developing algorithms and building systems for identifying various malicious traffic such as worms, spam, bot queries, faked and hijacked account activities, and fraudulent financial transactions. Fang received her Ph.D. degree from the EECS Department at University of California at Berkeley.
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About DataVisor: DataVisor is a fraud detection company powered by transformational AI technology.
Jeremy Pinkham
CTO of Lotame
Jeremy Pinkham is a seasoned technology developer and systems architect. He and his team have built and deployed the core technologies of the Data Management Platform that Lotame has employed so successfully. His expertise is focused on the implementation and performance of highly advanced scalable technologies. He previously led the team that built the first advanced reporting platform for Advertising.com as well as the company’s first email marketing platform and affiliate networking program. Jeremy graduated from the University of Delaware and currently lives in Maryland.
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About Lotame: Lotame is the leading provider of data enrichment solutions for global enterprises.
Adam Ayers
CTO, Founder of Number 5
Customer and Product Obsessed Technical Leader. Investor. Wine Collector. Full Stack Engineering, Product, and Technology leader experienced in a variety of environments including LAMP, MEAN/MERN, EFK hosted on AWS. Extensive experience with a wide array of High-Growth Startups ($5M-$100M/yr) as well as Larger E-Commerce Companies ($100M+/yr). Technologies utilized: Shopify Plus, LAMP, MEAN/MERN, EFK, AWS (EC2, S3, ElasticSearch, Kibana, RDS-MYSQL, RDS-PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Route53), NGINX, PHP (Laravel, Lumen, Twig, WordPress), Javascript (Express, Node, React, Angular, Vue), HTML, CSS (Bootstrap 4, Material), Payment Processors and Payment Gateways (Stripe, Paypal, Braintree, Amazon Payments), CDN (Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Akamai, and InstartLogic), Fraud and Chargeback Prevention (Signifyed, Forter, Stripe Radar), Email (MailChimp, SailThru, SendGrid), Automated deployment (Git, Github, and Jenkins), Fluentd, Nagios, Pingdom, Heroku, Twilio, Google Tag Manager, Slack.
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About Number 5: E-commerce Technology, Digital Product Management, and Growth Hacking with a strong emphasis on analytics and the scientific process.
Jacob Perkins
Chief Technology Officer of Fletch
Jacob Perkins is the Cofounder & CTO & Chief Hacker at Weotta. He puts the natural in natural language processing. He has a rare talent for manipulating vast quantities of data and creating processes that scale. Standing on his head and flexible shoulders are only a couple of his hidden talents.
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About Fletch: Fletch provides ready-to-use analytics organized in solutions sets that are easy to understand and actionable on day one.
Steve Milton
CTO & Co-Founder of PlaceIQ
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About MooveAI, PlaceIQ: PlaceIQ provides location intelligence services that enable advertisers to reach mobile brand audiences for marketing activities.
Ben Bromhead
CTO of Instaclustr
Ben Bromhead is the CTO of Instaclustr where he is responsible for working closely with his engineering team and customers to build highly available, scalable applications on top of Cassandra. Instaclustr is the only multi-cloud, self service Cassandra as a Service provider in the world and is dedicated to provider world class support.
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About Instaclustr: Instaclustr is the open source as-a-service company, delivering reliability at scale. 24x7x365
Vijay Mohan
CTO of PICKL
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About : Hyper-local human brand insights: On demand data from shoppers.
