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Chris Riccomini is an engineer, author, investor, and advisor. He has worked on infrastructure as an engineer and manager for about 15 years at PayPal, LinkedIn, and WePay. He was involved in open source as the original author of Apache Samza and an early contributor to Apache Airflow. He has also written a book with Dmitriy Ryaboy called The Missing README, a guide for software engineers. Lately, he has been investing in startups in the data space.
Astasia Myers is a Partner on Quiet Capital's enterprise team leading investments in ML, data infrastructure, open-source, developer tools, and security. She focuses on pre-seed, seed, and Series A.
Prior to joining Quiet, Astasia was an investor in Redpoint's early-stage enterprise team, where she partnered with Dremio, LaunchDarkly, Solo.io, Preset, Hex, Cyral, among others. Before that, she worked at Cisco Investments, where she focused on cloud-infrastructure M&A and investments, including Cohesity, Datos IO, Elastifile, Guardicore, Springpath, and the funding of internal stealth projects.
DeVaris Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Meroxa, a VC-backed company enabling teams of any size and level of expertise to build real-time data pipelines in minutes, not months.
Prior to founding Meroxa, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, VSCO, and Zendesk. When he’s not sitting in front of a computer, you can find DeVaris behind a camera capturing moments in time, at the stove whipping up the finest delicacies, or behind a set of turntables, moving a sea of people through music.
As Chief Business Development Officer, Taimur is responsible for developing emerging businesses at Redis and leading strategic business & corporate development. He is currently leading initiatives related to AI/ML.
Prior to Redis, Taimur led Worldwide Customer Success for Microsoft's Azure Data & AI. He jointly led the design, implementation, and landing of one of Microsoft's largest field transformations, which combined customer success, support engineering, and technical account management.
Before Microsoft, Taimur was the Managing Director for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Platform Technology and Applications - where he led business development from 2008 (near its inception) to 2018 when the business reached $25B in ARR. Taimur helped forge key partnerships and customers, including Airbnb, CapitalOne, Dropbox, Liberty Mutual, NASA JPL, Nasdaq, Netflix, Nintendo, Intuit, SAP, and Samsung.
Taimur grew up in three countries and lived in five states. Bellevue, WA is home for him, where he lives with his wife and three boys. Taimur enjoys cross-training, hiking, and biking. He is an avid reader of technology, business, and history. He enjoys art, music, coffee, and cooking on the weekends for his family.
Leigh-Marie Braswell is an investor at Founders Fund.
Before joining Founders Fund, she was an early engineer & the first product manager at Scale AI, where she originally built & later led product development for the LiDAR/3D annotation products, used by many autonomous vehicles, robots, and AR/VR companies as a core step in their machine learning lifecycles. She also has done software development at Blend, machine learning at Google, and quantitative trading at Jane Street.
She is originally from Alabama, graduated from MIT, and loves to play poker, run long distances, and scuba dive.
