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Anant Agarwal
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Anant Agarwal
Staff Software Engineer & Engineering Lead
Instacart
Staff Software Engineer & Engineering Lead, Instacart
Anant Agarwal is a Staff Software Engineer and Technical Lead in Instacart's Data Infrastructure group, leading initiatives for developer and data productivity at scale. During his 4+ years at Instacart, he has developed mission-critical distributed platforms and orchestration systems that power the company's data pipelines, workflow engines, and services ecosystem, processing millions of workflows daily. Previously at VMware, as Staff Software Engineer and one of the early engineers on VMware Cloud on AWS, he built high availability and distributed resource scheduling systems for hybrid cloud environments.
Anil Sadineni
  • Lightning Talks
Anil Sadineni
Principal Software Engineer
1upHealth
Principal Software Engineer, 1upHealth
A self-driven technology enthusiast with a deep passion for distributed data systems, Anil Sadineni embodies a continuous learning philosophy and a growth mindset to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of data engineering. He currently leads the architecture, design, and development of the Data Platform at 1upHealth, harnessing a modern data stack to tackle complex challenges in healthcare data interoperability and beyond.
Ciro Greco
  • Data Sci & Algos
Ciro Greco
Founder
Bauplan
Founder, Bauplan

Ciro Greco is the Founder and CEO of bauplan, a zero-copy, data-first FaaS platform launched in 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Neuroscience from the University of Milano-Bicocca. Previously, he co-founded Tooso, an AI-powered commerce search company acquired by Coveo in 2019, where he later served as VP of Artificial Intelligence. His expertise spans AI, linguistics, and data engineering, with a focus on making cloud data pipelines more efficient.

Elias DeFaria
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Elias DeFaria
Co-founder & VP of Product
SDF
Co-founder & VP of Product, SDF
Elias DeFaria is the cofounder and VP of Product at SDF Labs, a cutting-edge transformation layer that combines dbt-like capabilities with native SQL understanding and execution. He leads product strategy and development, collaborating closely with customers and engineers to deliver the next generation of data transformation tools.
Hannes Mühleisen
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Hannes Mühleisen
Co-creator of DuckDB
DuckDB Labs
Co-creator of DuckDB, DuckDB Labs
Hannes Mühleisen is a creator of the DuckDB database management system and Co-founder and CEO of DuckDB Labs. He is a senior researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. He is also Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Jesus Camacho
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Jesus Camacho
Principal Engineering Manager
Microsoft
Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Jesús Camacho Rodríguez is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team focused on query optimization and processing for Fabric Data Warehouse. Previously, he led a team in the Gray Systems Lab (GSL), driving innovation in data systems performance, interoperability, and benchmarking across Azure Data's product portfolio. Before Microsoft, he worked at Cloudera on query optimization for SQL data warehouse engines. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he has made significant contributions to open-source projects like Apache Calcite and Apache Hive, and, more recently, has focused on projects in the table formats space, including LST-Bench and Apache XTable (incubating). He holds a PhD from the University of Paris-Sud and Inria, France.
Jonathan Jin Jin
  • ML OPs & Platforms
Jonathan Jin Jin
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Hinge
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Hinge
Jonathan Jin is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Hinge where, as a member of the AI Platform Core team, he helps democratize the cost-efficient, robust, and scalable use of AI within the company. He has previously worked on production-scale ML platform and infrastructure at Spotify, NVIDIA, and Twitter. Prior to diving down the ML rabbit-hole, he worked on observability and SRE infrastructure at Uber. When he's not debugging inference pipelines, he enjoys cooking, literature, and plot-heavy JRPGs.
Joseph Gonzalez
Joseph Gonzalez
Professor
RunLLM & UC Berkeley
Professor, RunLLM & UC Berkeley
Joseph Gonzalez is a Computer Science Professor at UC Berkeley, the co-director of the RISE and Sky Computing Labs, and a member of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) group. He leads the Large Models Systems (LM-Sys) and Gorilla projects which have significantly advanced open research in large language models and their supporting systems. Joseph is also co-founder and Head of AI at RunLLM.com. His research addresses problems in data systems, large language models, scalable machine learning, computer vision, robotics, autonomous driving, and graph analytics. Prior to joining Berkeley, Gonzalez co-founded Turi Inc (formerly GraphLab) based on his thesis work. Gonzalez’s innovative work has earned him significant recognition, including the Okawa Research Grant, the NSF Expedition Award, the VLDB Test-of-Time award, and NSF Early CAREER Award.
Joseph Powers
  • Data Sci & Algos
Joseph Powers
Principal Data Scientist
Intuit
Principal Data Scientist, Intuit
Joseph is a Principal Data Scientist at Intuit, where he has lead Experimentation and Advanced Analytics. He is highly interested in experimentation, designing for large effects, simulation studies, Bayesian modeling, optimal stopping and decision theory. He will be very glad if you approach him to discuss any of these topics during the conference. Previous careers include 7 years as a custom furniture maker and a Psychology PhD from Stanford. When he is not programming or playing dad he enjoys woodworking, cooking and surfing.
Marcel Kornacker
  • ML OPs & Platforms
Marcel Kornacker
Co-Founder & CTO
Pixeltable
Co-Founder & CTO, Pixeltable

Marcel Kornacker is currently CTO and Co-Founder at Pixeltable and is notably known as the founder of Apache Impala and co-founder of Apache Parquet. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he studied databases under Joe Hellerstein. His career includes founding several startups, including Blink Computing, which provided data lake analytics as a service. He has also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at both Sutter Hill Ventures and Coatue Management. Kornacker's expertise spans databases, data analytics, and open-source technologies.

Marco Slot
  • Databases
Marco Slot
Software Imagineer
Crunchy Data
Software Imagineer, Crunchy Data
Marco Slot is a Software Imagineer at Crunchy Data, where he's building Crunchy Data Warehouse, a modern PostgreSQL-based solution. He previously served as Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, architecting Citus for Azure Cosmos DB, and was Principal Engineer at Citus Data before its acquisition by Microsoft. Slot holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin and a Master's in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Mickey Liu
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Mickey Liu
Software Engineer
Notion
Software Engineer, Notion
Mickey Liu is a software engineer on the AI & Data Platform team at Notion, helping build and scale data needs for Notion AI. Before Notion, Mickey worked on the ML Platform team at Twitter building the Feature Management system to enable ML model training and serving use cases for ads and recommendations.
Mitul Tiwari
Mitul Tiwari
Co-founder & CTO
Stealth
Co-founder & CTO, Stealth

Mitul Tiwari is CTO and Co-founder of a stealth AI startup. Until recently he was a Director of AI and Machine Learning Engineering at ServiceNow leading natural language technologies group. Earlier he was CTO and Co-founder of Passage AI (acquired by Servicenow). His expertise lies in building data-driven products using AI, Machine Learning and big data technologies. Previously he was head of People You May Know and Growth Relevance at LinkedIn, where he led technical innovations in large-scale social recommender systems. Prior to that, he worked at Kosmix (now Walmart Labs) on web-scale text categorization, and its applications. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has also co-authored more than twenty publications in top conferences such as ACL, AAAI, KDD, WWW, RecSys, VLDB, SIGIR, CIKM, and SPAA.

Paul Dix
  • Databases
Paul Dix
Founder & CTO
InfluxData
Founder & CTO, InfluxData
Paul is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups, large companies and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley’s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 Paul wrote the book Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley’s. In 2009 he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has over 7,000 members. Paul holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.
Pedram Navid
  • Keynotes
  • Lightning Talks
Pedram Navid
Head of Data Engineering & DevRel
Dagster Labs
Head of Data Engineering & DevRel, Dagster Labs
Pedram is the Head of Data Engineering and DevRel at Dagster Labs where he manages the devrel, marketing, and data teams with the goal of helping developers be more successful with Dagster. He has built Dagster integrations, the Ask AI agent, and rewritten docs from the ground up. Prior to Dagster, he was the Head of Data at Hightouch, is an avid bird watcher, and a father of twin girls.
Saif Ur-Rehman
  • Lightning Talks
Saif Ur-Rehman
Data Engineering Lead
Basecamp Research
Data Engineering Lead, Basecamp Research
Dr. Saif Ur-Rehman is Principal Data Engineer at Basecamp Research, where he leads a team developing strategic data pipelines and bioinformatics systems that have facilitated the production of state-of-the-art models for protein folding, annotation, and generation. His work focuses on constructing datasets for model training and fine-tuning while leveraging computational biology to build sustainable solutions. His expertise spans cancer biology and machine learning, developed through his postdoctoral work at the Institute of Cancer Research and his bioinformatics experience at EMBL-EBI and Genomics England after earning his PhD in Computational Biology from the University of St Andrews.
Simon Eskildsen
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Simon Eskildsen
Co-founder
Turbopuffer
Co-founder, Turbopuffer
Simon Hørup Eskildsen is co-founder of turbopuffer, a fast search engine on object storage. Previously, Simon was a principal engineer at Shopify, scaling the system from 1K to 1M requests per second. When time allows, he writes about napkin math on his or the turbopuffer blog and maintains a popular reference on the topic on Github: sirupsen/napkin-math.
Sumedh Sakdeo
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Sumedh Sakdeo
Senior Staff Software Engineer
LinkedIn
Senior Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
Sumedh Sakdeo is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn. He has 15+ years of experience working in data infrastructure. He previously contributed to a log-structured file system at Tintri and led data infrastructure, engineering, and visualization for Lyft's Autonomous Vehicles division. Notably, at LinkedIn, he spearheaded the development of OpenHouse, an open source control plane for Apache Iceberg Tables, enabling efficient table maintenance and data layout optimization at scale.
Tanya Bragin
  • Lightning Talks
Tanya Bragin
VP Product
ClickHouse
VP Product, ClickHouse
Tanya Bragin leads product at ClickHouse, a popular open source analytical database. She has over 20 years of experience in the data space, ranging from data analytics, to search, to security and network analytics. She started her career in consulting and sales engineering, and spent the last decade and a half growing product organizations from early stages to maturity at three data analytics startups, ExtraHop, Elastic, and now ClickHouse.
Timothy Chan
  • Analytics & BI
  • Lightning Talks
  • Data Sci & Algos
Timothy Chan
Head of Data
Statsig
Head of Data, Statsig
Timothy Chan is an experienced data science professional, currently serving as the Head of Data at Statsig. This cutting-edge platform provides product observability and experimentation services to top companies such as Notion, RecRoom, WhatNot, and OfferUp. Before joining Statsig, Timothy spent 5 years as a Data Scientist at Facebook (now Meta), where he was involved in projects across Facebook App and Reality Labs. Before venturing into the tech industry, Timothy worked in biotech, researching treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, and Cancer. He holds a PhD in Chemistry and an MBA in Entrepreneurship.
Tobias Lunt
  • Lightning Talks
Tobias Lunt
Co-Founder & Data Scientist
Development Data Lab
Co-Founder & Data Scientist, Development Data Lab
Tobias is co-founder and Head of Data at Development Data Lab, where his mission is to deliver insights and open data to fight poverty and improve policy around the world. He leads data engineering, analytical, geospatial, and visualization efforts at DDL. In a past life, he was a Fulbrighter to Ethiopia working on agricultural development alongside rural farmers.
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100+ Speakers

Learn from the data & AI heroes at top companies as they explain architectures, discoveries and best practices in detail. 

All
Data Eng & Infrastructure
Data Sci & Algos
ML OPs & Platforms
Analytics & BI
Lightning Talks
Workshops
Keynotes
Databases
Foundation Models
AI Engineering
GenAI Applications
AI & Data Culture
Anant Agarwal
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Anant Agarwal
Staff Software Engineer & Engineering Lead
Instacart
Staff Software Engineer & Engineering Lead, Instacart
Anant Agarwal is a Staff Software Engineer and Technical Lead in Instacart's Data Infrastructure group, leading initiatives for developer and data productivity at scale. During his 4+ years at Instacart, he has developed mission-critical distributed platforms and orchestration systems that power the company's data pipelines, workflow engines, and services ecosystem, processing millions of workflows daily. Previously at VMware, as Staff Software Engineer and one of the early engineers on VMware Cloud on AWS, he built high availability and distributed resource scheduling systems for hybrid cloud environments.
Anil Sadineni
  • Lightning Talks
Anil Sadineni
Principal Software Engineer
1upHealth
Principal Software Engineer, 1upHealth
A self-driven technology enthusiast with a deep passion for distributed data systems, Anil Sadineni embodies a continuous learning philosophy and a growth mindset to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of data engineering. He currently leads the architecture, design, and development of the Data Platform at 1upHealth, harnessing a modern data stack to tackle complex challenges in healthcare data interoperability and beyond.
Ciro Greco
  • Data Sci & Algos
Ciro Greco
Founder
Bauplan
Founder, Bauplan

Ciro Greco is the Founder and CEO of bauplan, a zero-copy, data-first FaaS platform launched in 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Neuroscience from the University of Milano-Bicocca. Previously, he co-founded Tooso, an AI-powered commerce search company acquired by Coveo in 2019, where he later served as VP of Artificial Intelligence. His expertise spans AI, linguistics, and data engineering, with a focus on making cloud data pipelines more efficient.

Elias DeFaria
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Elias DeFaria
Co-founder & VP of Product
SDF
Co-founder & VP of Product, SDF
Elias DeFaria is the cofounder and VP of Product at SDF Labs, a cutting-edge transformation layer that combines dbt-like capabilities with native SQL understanding and execution. He leads product strategy and development, collaborating closely with customers and engineers to deliver the next generation of data transformation tools.
Hannes Mühleisen
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Hannes Mühleisen
Co-creator of DuckDB
DuckDB Labs
Co-creator of DuckDB, DuckDB Labs
Hannes Mühleisen is a creator of the DuckDB database management system and Co-founder and CEO of DuckDB Labs. He is a senior researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. He is also Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Jesus Camacho
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Jesus Camacho
Principal Engineering Manager
Microsoft
Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Jesús Camacho Rodríguez is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team focused on query optimization and processing for Fabric Data Warehouse. Previously, he led a team in the Gray Systems Lab (GSL), driving innovation in data systems performance, interoperability, and benchmarking across Azure Data's product portfolio. Before Microsoft, he worked at Cloudera on query optimization for SQL data warehouse engines. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he has made significant contributions to open-source projects like Apache Calcite and Apache Hive, and, more recently, has focused on projects in the table formats space, including LST-Bench and Apache XTable (incubating). He holds a PhD from the University of Paris-Sud and Inria, France.
Jonathan Jin Jin
  • ML OPs & Platforms
Jonathan Jin Jin
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Hinge
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Hinge
Jonathan Jin is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Hinge where, as a member of the AI Platform Core team, he helps democratize the cost-efficient, robust, and scalable use of AI within the company. He has previously worked on production-scale ML platform and infrastructure at Spotify, NVIDIA, and Twitter. Prior to diving down the ML rabbit-hole, he worked on observability and SRE infrastructure at Uber. When he's not debugging inference pipelines, he enjoys cooking, literature, and plot-heavy JRPGs.
Joseph Gonzalez
Joseph Gonzalez
Professor
RunLLM & UC Berkeley
Professor, RunLLM & UC Berkeley
Joseph Gonzalez is a Computer Science Professor at UC Berkeley, the co-director of the RISE and Sky Computing Labs, and a member of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) group. He leads the Large Models Systems (LM-Sys) and Gorilla projects which have significantly advanced open research in large language models and their supporting systems. Joseph is also co-founder and Head of AI at RunLLM.com. His research addresses problems in data systems, large language models, scalable machine learning, computer vision, robotics, autonomous driving, and graph analytics. Prior to joining Berkeley, Gonzalez co-founded Turi Inc (formerly GraphLab) based on his thesis work. Gonzalez’s innovative work has earned him significant recognition, including the Okawa Research Grant, the NSF Expedition Award, the VLDB Test-of-Time award, and NSF Early CAREER Award.
Joseph Powers
  • Data Sci & Algos
Joseph Powers
Principal Data Scientist
Intuit
Principal Data Scientist, Intuit
Joseph is a Principal Data Scientist at Intuit, where he has lead Experimentation and Advanced Analytics. He is highly interested in experimentation, designing for large effects, simulation studies, Bayesian modeling, optimal stopping and decision theory. He will be very glad if you approach him to discuss any of these topics during the conference. Previous careers include 7 years as a custom furniture maker and a Psychology PhD from Stanford. When he is not programming or playing dad he enjoys woodworking, cooking and surfing.
Marcel Kornacker
  • ML OPs & Platforms
Marcel Kornacker
Co-Founder & CTO
Pixeltable
Co-Founder & CTO, Pixeltable

Marcel Kornacker is currently CTO and Co-Founder at Pixeltable and is notably known as the founder of Apache Impala and co-founder of Apache Parquet. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he studied databases under Joe Hellerstein. His career includes founding several startups, including Blink Computing, which provided data lake analytics as a service. He has also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at both Sutter Hill Ventures and Coatue Management. Kornacker's expertise spans databases, data analytics, and open-source technologies.

Marco Slot
  • Databases
Marco Slot
Software Imagineer
Crunchy Data
Software Imagineer, Crunchy Data
Marco Slot is a Software Imagineer at Crunchy Data, where he's building Crunchy Data Warehouse, a modern PostgreSQL-based solution. He previously served as Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, architecting Citus for Azure Cosmos DB, and was Principal Engineer at Citus Data before its acquisition by Microsoft. Slot holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin and a Master's in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Mickey Liu
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Mickey Liu
Software Engineer
Notion
Software Engineer, Notion
Mickey Liu is a software engineer on the AI & Data Platform team at Notion, helping build and scale data needs for Notion AI. Before Notion, Mickey worked on the ML Platform team at Twitter building the Feature Management system to enable ML model training and serving use cases for ads and recommendations.
Mitul Tiwari
Mitul Tiwari
Co-founder & CTO
Stealth
Co-founder & CTO, Stealth

Mitul Tiwari is CTO and Co-founder of a stealth AI startup. Until recently he was a Director of AI and Machine Learning Engineering at ServiceNow leading natural language technologies group. Earlier he was CTO and Co-founder of Passage AI (acquired by Servicenow). His expertise lies in building data-driven products using AI, Machine Learning and big data technologies. Previously he was head of People You May Know and Growth Relevance at LinkedIn, where he led technical innovations in large-scale social recommender systems. Prior to that, he worked at Kosmix (now Walmart Labs) on web-scale text categorization, and its applications. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has also co-authored more than twenty publications in top conferences such as ACL, AAAI, KDD, WWW, RecSys, VLDB, SIGIR, CIKM, and SPAA.

Paul Dix
  • Databases
Paul Dix
Founder & CTO
InfluxData
Founder & CTO, InfluxData
Paul is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups, large companies and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley’s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 Paul wrote the book Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley’s. In 2009 he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has over 7,000 members. Paul holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.
Pedram Navid
  • Keynotes
  • Lightning Talks
Pedram Navid
Head of Data Engineering & DevRel
Dagster Labs
Head of Data Engineering & DevRel, Dagster Labs
Pedram is the Head of Data Engineering and DevRel at Dagster Labs where he manages the devrel, marketing, and data teams with the goal of helping developers be more successful with Dagster. He has built Dagster integrations, the Ask AI agent, and rewritten docs from the ground up. Prior to Dagster, he was the Head of Data at Hightouch, is an avid bird watcher, and a father of twin girls.
Saif Ur-Rehman
  • Lightning Talks
Saif Ur-Rehman
Data Engineering Lead
Basecamp Research
Data Engineering Lead, Basecamp Research
Dr. Saif Ur-Rehman is Principal Data Engineer at Basecamp Research, where he leads a team developing strategic data pipelines and bioinformatics systems that have facilitated the production of state-of-the-art models for protein folding, annotation, and generation. His work focuses on constructing datasets for model training and fine-tuning while leveraging computational biology to build sustainable solutions. His expertise spans cancer biology and machine learning, developed through his postdoctoral work at the Institute of Cancer Research and his bioinformatics experience at EMBL-EBI and Genomics England after earning his PhD in Computational Biology from the University of St Andrews.
Simon Eskildsen
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Simon Eskildsen
Co-founder
Turbopuffer
Co-founder, Turbopuffer
Simon Hørup Eskildsen is co-founder of turbopuffer, a fast search engine on object storage. Previously, Simon was a principal engineer at Shopify, scaling the system from 1K to 1M requests per second. When time allows, he writes about napkin math on his or the turbopuffer blog and maintains a popular reference on the topic on Github: sirupsen/napkin-math.
Sumedh Sakdeo
  • Data Eng & Infrastructure
Sumedh Sakdeo
Senior Staff Software Engineer
LinkedIn
Senior Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
Sumedh Sakdeo is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn. He has 15+ years of experience working in data infrastructure. He previously contributed to a log-structured file system at Tintri and led data infrastructure, engineering, and visualization for Lyft's Autonomous Vehicles division. Notably, at LinkedIn, he spearheaded the development of OpenHouse, an open source control plane for Apache Iceberg Tables, enabling efficient table maintenance and data layout optimization at scale.
Tanya Bragin
  • Lightning Talks
Tanya Bragin
VP Product
ClickHouse
VP Product, ClickHouse
Tanya Bragin leads product at ClickHouse, a popular open source analytical database. She has over 20 years of experience in the data space, ranging from data analytics, to search, to security and network analytics. She started her career in consulting and sales engineering, and spent the last decade and a half growing product organizations from early stages to maturity at three data analytics startups, ExtraHop, Elastic, and now ClickHouse.
Timothy Chan
  • Analytics & BI
  • Lightning Talks
  • Data Sci & Algos
Timothy Chan
Head of Data
Statsig
Head of Data, Statsig
Timothy Chan is an experienced data science professional, currently serving as the Head of Data at Statsig. This cutting-edge platform provides product observability and experimentation services to top companies such as Notion, RecRoom, WhatNot, and OfferUp. Before joining Statsig, Timothy spent 5 years as a Data Scientist at Facebook (now Meta), where he was involved in projects across Facebook App and Reality Labs. Before venturing into the tech industry, Timothy worked in biotech, researching treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, and Cancer. He holds a PhD in Chemistry and an MBA in Entrepreneurship.
Tobias Lunt
  • Lightning Talks
Tobias Lunt
Co-Founder & Data Scientist
Development Data Lab
Co-Founder & Data Scientist, Development Data Lab
Tobias is co-founder and Head of Data at Development Data Lab, where his mission is to deliver insights and open data to fight poverty and improve policy around the world. He leads data engineering, analytical, geospatial, and visualization efforts at DDL. In a past life, he was a Fulbrighter to Ethiopia working on agricultural development alongside rural farmers.
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