Shruti Bhat leads product management and marketing at Rockset. Before Rockset, she led Product Management for Oracle Cloud, focusing on AI, IoT, and Blockchain. Previously, she was the VP of Marketing at Ravello Systems, where she drove the start-up's rapid growth from pre-launch to hundreds of customers and a successful acquisition. Before that, she was responsible for launching VMware's vSAN and led engineering teams at HP and IBM. Shruti has a bachelor's in computer science engineering and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.
Datacast Episode 112: Distributed Systems Research, The Philosophy of Computational Complexity, and Modern Streaming Database with Arjun Narayan
Arjun Narayan is the co-founder and CEO of Materialize. Materialize is a streaming database for real-time applications and analytics, built on top of a next-generation stream processor – Timely Dataflow. He was previously an engineer at Cockroach Labs and held a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Datacast Episode 111: Astrophysics, Visualization Recommendation, and Scalable Data Science with Doris Lee
Datacast Episode 110: Wisdom in Building Data Infrastructure, Lessons from Open-Source Development, The Missing README, and The Future of Data Engineering with Chris Riccomini
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.
Datacast Episode 109: Developer Productivity, Real-Time Data Infrastructure, and The Fat-Tailed Nature of Enterprise Software with Nnamdi Iregbulem
Nnamdi Iregbulem, a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, is a self-taught programmer and lifelong technology nerd. His mission is to increase total software output by supporting entrepreneurs building technical tools for technical people. He focuses on investments in technical enterprise software such as developer tools, application infrastructure, and machine learning.
Datacast Episode 108: Computer Vision, Product Management, and Enterprise Investing with Tom Rikert
Tom Rikert is the co-founder and CEO of Masterful AI, the training platform for computer vision that helps developers build models faster and with much less labeling. He is a former VC and invested in enterprise software and AI/ML at Andreessen Horowitz. Before VC, he held product management roles at Wildfire (acquired by Google), YouTube, and Autodesk. He began his AI/ML journey at MIT and started his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics. Tom lives in the Bay Area with his wife and daughter and loves going fast, whether on a mountain bike or flying racing drones.
Datacast Episode 107: Investing At The Nexus of Computational Sciences with Grace Isford
Grace Isford is a Partner based in Lux Capital's New York City office. She invests in companies innovating at the nexus of the computational sciences – data, AI and ML infrastructure, network and compute infrastructure, and cutting-edge technological applications, especially in healthcare and financial services. She focuses on data and machine-learning startups that are hyper-personalizing user experiences and transforming legacy industries, as well as fintech and blockchain infrastructure companies building the next-gen developer stack and payment rails.
Datacast Episode 106: Advancing AI Adoption with Dania Meira
Dânia Meira has been a senior expert and mathematician in the data field since 2012, with a Data Science career in Berlin startups where her work focused on ML for predictive analytics. She is also an experienced teacher and mentor. Dânia is the Director of #datalift and a Founding Member of the AI Guild.
Datacast Episode 105: Building The Next-Generation Spreadsheet, Being A Curious Analyst, and Engineering Entrepreneurship with Bobby Pinero
Datacast Episode 104: Streamlining Machine Learning In Production with Ran Romano
Ran Romano is the co-founder and VP of Engineering at Qwak, where he is focused on building the next-generation ML infrastructure for ML teams of various sizes. Before Qwak, Ran led the Data and ML engineering groups at Wix.com - where he built Wix's internal ML Platform. Previous to that, he was a Technical Product Manager at the Israeli Intelligence corps.