Bio

I joined DataRobot at the beginning of 2022 as President & COO, and was appointed CEO in July, 2022. DataRobot is the #1 applied AI company in the world - helping enterprises around the world, across different industries, to solve critical business problems using the power of AI. Almost half of the Fortune 50 companies, including top banks, pharmaceuticals, retailers, telcos, manufacturers are our our customers. Before joining DataRobot, I was VP/GM of Data Analytics services, including BigQuery, Dataflow, PubSub, Dataproc etc in Google Cloud (GCP). In this role, I was responsible for engineering, operations, and go-to-market, including overall P&L, of the Analytics business in GCP. This was a period of rapid growth for GCP Data Analytics. We launched innovative new services like BigQuery Omni, Dataplex, Data Fusion, Data Catalog to name a few. Data Analytics revenue grew 3x thanks to customers like Walmart, HSBC, Vodafone, PayPal, Twitter adopting BigQuery and other GCP services as their primary data analytics platform. Prior to joining Google, I led Database services at AWS. One of my proudest accomplishments at AWS is the development and launch of Amazon Aurora, a massively scalable relational database service re-imagined for the cloud. Aurora has transformed the way people think about mission-critical databases in the cloud and has been the fastest growing service in the history of AWS. In 2019, I was named one of the technology executive of the year for transforming database industry. I also led the development and launch of AWS Glue, a data integration and transformation service at the core of AWS Datalake. Prior to AWS, I held multiple executive and technical leadership positions in IBM, including a 2-year international assignment in Shanghai, China. One of my key accomplishments in IBM is the development of Storwize, a family of virtualizing storage controller, and growing it to a $1B/year business in less than four years. Earlier in my career, I was a Principal Engineer at Tellium, an optical networking pioneer, that I helped grow from an early stage start-up to a public company ($3B+ IPO). I am a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. I have co-authored a book, 50+ US patent applications, 100+ technical articles, including award winning papers and major Internet standards. I received MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland, and a BTech from IIT, all in Computer Science.