Ground shaking founders, successful investors, data pioneers and tech aficionados – see who used Data Council to share their best-kept secrets.

Catherine Tarsney

Analytics Director

Democratic National Committee

Kelley Rivoire

Engineering Manager

Stripe

Josh Ferguson

co-founder and Chief Architect

Mode

Andy Eschbacher

Senior Data Scientist

Carto

Hedi Razavi

Co-Founder & COO

Keewi

Kai Brusch

Data Scientist

Airbnb

Andrew Hoh

Product Manager

Airbnb

Austin Wilt

Head of Product Analytics

Slack

Anish Doshi

Machine Learning Engineer

Trifacta

Bonnie Barrilleaux

Data Science Manager

LinkedIn

Durgam Vahia

Product Manager

LinkedIn

Greg Neiheisel

Co-Founder & CTO

Astronomer

Karthik Ranganathan

Co-Founder & CTO

YugaByte

Sid Choudhury

VP, Product

YugaByte

Igor Canadi

Software Engineer

Rockset

Spencer Barton

Data Scientist

Branch International

Andrew Colombi

Co-Founder & CTO

Tonic

Amit Ramesh

Software Engineer

Yelp

Praneeth Vepakomma

Researcher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gian Merlino

Co-Founder & CTO

Imply

Arun Krishnaswamy

Lead Data Scientist

Workday

Rupa Parameswaran

Security Architect

Demandbase

Abe Gong

Co-Founder & CEO

Great Expectations

Alex Ratner

Author of Snorkel

Stanford University

Kishore Gopalakrishna

Stealth

Founding Engineer

Robert Nishihara

Machine Learning Researcher

UC Berkeley

Dan Robinson

CTO

Heap

Barr Moses

CEO & Co-founder

Monte Carlo

Luke Merrick

Data Scientist

Fiddler Labs

Carl Gold

Chief Data Scientist

Zuora

Eric Colson

Chief Algorithms Officer

Stitch Fix

Daragh Sibley

Director of Data Science

Stitch Fix

Anitha Kannan

AI Researcher

Curai

Ryan Smith

Data Scientist

Wootric

Paul Cothenet

Co-founder & CTO

MadKudu

Ali Hamidi

Lead Data Engineer at Heroku

Salesforce

Edwin Ong

Technical Partner

TinyData

Nishith Agarwal

Senior Software Engineer

Uber

Matt Seal

Senior Software Engineer

Netflix

Austen Head

Senior Data Scientist

Quid

Neelesh Srinivas Salian

Software Engineer

Stitch Fix

Ethan Guo Yihua

Software Engineer

Uber

Bin Fan

Founding Member of Engineering

Alluxio Inc

Tao Feng

Software Engineer

Lyft

Jin Hyuk Chang

Software Engineer

Lyft

Jerome Nilmeier

Data Scientist & Developer Advocate

IBM

Lauren Chircus

Product Manager, Data Quality & Analytics Frameworks

Airbnb

Masha Danilenko

Data Engineer

Meta (Facebook)

Sid Anand

Hacker at Large, Co-chair @ QCon & Data Council, PMC & Committer @ Apache Airflow

Apache Software Foundation

Prasanna Padmanabhan

Engineering Manager

Netflix

Daniel Francisco

Director of Product

Meta

Souvik Ghosh

Principal Staff Engineer, AI

LinkedIn

Krishnaram Kenthapadi

Principal Scientist

Amazon AWS AI

Edo Liberty

Founder

HyperCube

Michael Armbrust

Engineering Lead for Delta Lake

Databricks

Emmanuel Ameisen

ML Engineer

Stripe

David Aronchick

Director, Research Development

Protocol Labs

Albert Franzi Cros

Data Engineer

Alpha Health

Timo Walther

Principal Software Engineer @ Confluent, PMC @ Apache Flink

Confluent

Willy Lulciuc

Founding Engineer

Datakin

Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski

CTO

Starburst

Jennifer Prendki

Founder & CEO

Alectio

Wes Chow

Director of Engineering, Advanced Analytics

Cortico

Max Beauchemin

CEO

Preset

Julian Hyde

Senior Staff Engineer

Google

Julien Le Dem

Open Lineage Project Lead

LFAI & Data

Vadim Semenov

Data Engineer

Datadog

Vinoth Chandar

CEO & Founder

Onehouse

Soups Ranjan

Head of Financial Crime Risk

Revolut

Nick Schrock

Founder & CTO

Dagster Labs

Robert Winslow

Co-founder & CTO

EraDB

Frank McSherry

Chief Scientist

Materialize

Benn Stancil

Field CTO

ThoughtSpot

William Falcon

AI Researcher

Facebook / NYU

James Savage

Manager, Data Science

Schmidt Futures

Johannes Leppä

Data Engineer

Komodo Health

Rendy Bambang Junior

Data System Architect

Traveloka

Miguel Rios

Head of Consumer Data Science

Twitter

Greg Roodt

Data Engineering Lead

Canva

Bence Faludi

Independent Consultant

Paul Beaumont

Senior Data Scientist

QuantumBlack

Chris Hausler

Senior Manager, Data Science

Zendesk

Arpit Agarwal

Director of Data Science

Zoomcar

Ashish Dubey

VP of International Solution Architects

Qubole

Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai

Software Engineer / Apache Flink PMC

Ververica

Karthik Thirumalai

Senior Data Scientist

Teradata

Joshua Hendinata

Data Engineer

Traveloka

Mikhail Filippov

Chief Scientist

Quod AI

Ben Reinhardt

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Entrepreneur First

Aron Pettersson

CTO & Co-Founder

Musiio

Avni Agrawal

Co-Founder

SixSense

Sumukh Avadhani

CTO & Co-Founder

Pencil AI

Le Zhang

Data Scientist

Microsoft

Yiqun Hu

Director, Data & AI

SP Group

Ravi Suhag

Head of Data Engineering

GO-JEK

Kishore Parthasarathy

Head of Marketing Science for South East Asia

Facebook

Gayathri Venkatesan

Measurement Insights Lead

Facebook

David Tan

Software Engineer

Thoughtworks

Wouter de Bie

Director of Engineering

Datadog

Ananth Packkildurai

Senior Software Engineer

Slack

Tamás Németh

Tech Lead of Data Platform Team

Prezi

Alessandro Pregnolato

Head of Data

Marfeel

Alexander Kudryashov

Senior Software Engineer

New Relic

Gergely Krasznai

Senior Data Analyst

Prezi

Paula M. Petrone

Senior Consultant, Life Sciences Europe

Health Catalyst

Jordi Vitria

Full Professor

University of Barcelona

Santi Seguí

Associate Professor

University of Barcelona

Andrea Spina

Head of R&D

Radicalbit

Xavier Gumara Rigol

Data Engineering Manager

Adevinta

Joerg Schad

Head of Engineering and Machine Learning

ArangoDB

Lewis Hemens

Co-Founder & CTO

Dataform

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

CEO

NTENT

Carmen Herrero

Data Scientist Lead

MANGO

Petia Radeva

Full Professor, University of Barcelona & Senior Researcher & Project Manager, Computer Vision Center

University of Barcelona

Yizhar Toren

Data Science Lead

Shopify

Ramon Gras Alomà

Urban Innovation Researcher at Harvard University and Co-Founder at Aretian

Aretian & Harvard University

Maria Crosas Batista

IS/IT Project Manager

Nestlé

Jackson Argo

Software Engineer

Slack

Aureli Soria-Frisch

Director of Neuroscience

Starlab Consulting Division

Markus Ludwig

Senior Data Scientist

Scout24

Miguel Alvarez

Data Scientist

CARTO

Arnau Tibau Puig

Head of Data Science

Letgo

Malte Sandstede

Partner & Co-Founder

Clockworks

Nikolas Goebel

Partner & Co-Founder

Clockworks

Vicente Valls Rios

Engineering Manager

Delivery Hero

Gerard Maas

Principal Engineer

Lightbend

Sean Knapp

CEO and Founder

Ascend

Nitya Narasimhan

Senior Program Manager, Developer Relations

Microsoft

Ian Nowland

Vice President Engineering - Metrics and Alerts

Datadog

Agata Lapedriza

Tenured Professor, UOC / Visiting Researcher, MIT Media Lab

UOC / MIT Media Lab

Steve Coppin-Smith

Head of Engineering

Snowplow Analytics

Karina Gibert

Full Professor

UPC

Tiago Henriques

Technical Specialist - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Microsoft

Xaquín G.V.

Independent Consultant

Fernando Cucchietti

Head of Data Analytics and Visualization

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Pau Garcia

Founder

Domestic Streamers

Joan Albert d’Escofet

Senior Project Manager & Health Information & Data Scientist Technology Expert

AQuAS

Nick Rockwell

Chief Technology Officer

The New York Times

Zach Kulis

Director, Software Engineering, Conversational AI

Capital One

Marc Ferradou

Senior Director of Data Science

CNN

Margaret Mayer

MVP, Software Engineering for Messaging, Conversational AI and Innovation Platforms

Capital One

Ronny Luss

Research Staff Member

IBM Research AI

Herman Schaaf

Senior Software Engineer

Skyscanner

Amelia White

Lead Data Scientist

Dstillery

Lloyd Danzig

Chairman & Founder

ICED(AI)

Elias Bareinboim

Associate Professor

Columbia University

Maureen Teyssier

Director of Data Science and Data Engineering

Reonomy

Yev Meyer

Senior Data Scientist

Guru

Mark Etherington

CTO

Crux Informatics

Viktor Gamov

Developer Advocate

Confluent

Lucy Vasserman

Software Engineer

Jigsaw

Kai Rikhye

Senior Staff Data Engineer

Skillshare

Samantha Bail

Data Insights Engineer

John Maiden

Senior Data Scientist

Cherre

Susana Marquez

Manager, Data Scientist

Rockefeller Foundation

Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Data Scientist

DataCamp

Liwei Mao

Team Lead

Button

Shira Mitchell

Statistician

Civis Analytics

Riva-Melissa Tez

Sr Director, Strategic Technology Initiatives

Intel Corporation

Norma Padron

Senior Director, Research

American Hospitals Association

Gideon Mann

Head of Data Science

Bloomberg

Adi Polak

Vice President of Developer Experience

Treeverse

Joe Ross

Principal Data Scientist

Splunk

Daniel van der Ende

Data Engineer

GoDataDriven

Tim van Cann

Data Engineer

GoDataDriven

Alex Kass

Engineering Manager, Observability Applications & Infra Analytics

DigitalOcean

Nathan VanBenschoten

Staff Software Engineer

Cockroach Labs

Mohammed Ridwanul

Product Manager

Dessa

George Talbot

Staff Software Engineer

Google

Joshua Loftus

Assistant Professor

NYU

Seth Wiesman

Solutions Architect

Ververica

Juliana Freire

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Data Science

NYU

Nader Azari

Software Engineer

Uber

Yifan Ma

Software Engineer

Uber

Nikhil Simha

Software Engineer

Airbnb

Vishakha Gupta-Cledat

Co-Founder & CEO

ApertureData

Mark Grover

CEO & Co-Founder

Stemma

Alyssa Ransbury

Security Engineer

Square

Zineb Laraki

Einstein.Ai Product Management

Salesforce

Vitaly Gordon

Co-founder & CEO

Faros AI

Luis Remis

CTO

ApertureData

Jeremy Cohen

Associate Product Manager

Fishtown Analytics

Haytham Abuelfutuh

Software Engineering Manager

Lyft

Mitul Tiwari

Director of AI and Machine Learning Engineering

ServiceNow

Grace Huang

Machine Learning Engineering Manager

Netflix

Mehrnoosh Sameki

Senior Technical Program Manager

Microsoft

Peter Kairouz

Research Scientist

Google

Caitlin Colgrove

Founder & CTO

Hex

Shirshanka Das

Co-Founder and CEO

Acryl Data

Jessica Laughlin

Strategic Initiatives Lead

Materialize

Hung Dang

CEO / CTO

Y42

Chetan Sharma

Founder & CEO

Eppo

Emily Curtin

Staff MLOps Engineer

Intuit Mailchimp

Danny Chiao

Engineering Lead

Tecton

Kyle Eaton

Growth Lead

Great Expectations

Ville Tuulos

Co-founder & CEO

Outerbounds

Egor Gryaznov

Co-Founder and CTO

Bigeye

Yaroslav Tkachenko

Staff Data Engineer

Shopify

Devin Petersohn

Co-Founder and CTO

Ponder

Anand Ranganathan

Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer

Unscrambl

Jules Damji

Lead Developer Advocate

Anyscale

Clodéric Mars

VP of Engineering

AIR

Paula Griffin

Director of Product

Zip Recruiter

Chad Sanderson

CEO

Gable.ai

Anupam Datta

Co-Founder, Chief Scientist

TruEra

Sandy Ryza

Software Engineer

Elementl

Sean Taylor

Chief Scientist

Motif Analytics

Niels Bantilan

Machine Learning Engineer

Union

Shinji Kim

Founder & CEO

Select Star

Ryan Blue

Co-Founder & CEO

Tabular

Shayan Mohanty

Co-Founder & CEO

Watchful

Maggie Hays

Founding Community Product Manager of DataHub

Acryl Data

Alvaro Soto

Director of Product

Procore Technologies

Pim Nauts

Founder

STRM Privacy

Julie Hollek

Senior DS and ML Manager

Mozilla

Rick Lamers

CEO and Co-Founder

Orchest

Ahmed Elsamadisi

Founder & CEO

Narrator

Will Thompson

Principal Software Engineer

Privacy Dynamics

Tristan Zajonc

CEO & Co-Founder

Continual

Peter Gao

CEO and Co-Founder

Aquarium

Chaoyu Yang

Founder & CEO

BentoML

Susannah Shattuck

Head of Product

Credo AI

Jesika Haria

Co-founder and CEO

LogicLoop

Clare Gollnick

Co-Founder and CTO

Fathom

Robin Trietsch

Founding Engineer

STRM Privacy

Anirudh Shah

Research Engineer

Iggy

Robert Yi

Co-founder & CPO

Hyperquery

Chang She

Co-founder and CEO

LanceDB

Bernease Herman

Data Scientist

WhyLabs

Bastien Boutonnet

Lead Data Scientist

Soda

Steven Hillion

Head of Data

Astronomer

Prukalpa Sankar

Co-Founder

Atlan

James Campbell

CTO

Superconductive

Peter Wang

CEO & Co-Founder

Anaconda

Joanne Chen

General Partner

Foundation

George Mathew

Managing Director

Insight Partners

Bogomil Balkansky

Partner

Sequoia Capital

Paul Singman

Developer Advocate

Treeverse

Mingsheng Hong

Co-Founder & CEO

Bluesky Data

Diego Oppenheimer

Executive VP

DataRobot

Elizabeth Dlha

Co-Founder & Head of Community & Partnerships

Deepnote

Kashish Gupta

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Hightouch

Pete Soderling

General Partner

Data Community Fund

Robert Yi

Chief Product Officer

Hyperquery

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