Bio

Shivnath Babu is Co-founder/CTO at Unravel Data Systems and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Duke University. His work focuses on ease-of-use and manageability of data-intensive computing systems, automated problem diagnosis, and cluster sizing for applications running on cloud platforms. Shivnath co-founded Unravel to solve the application management challenges that enterprises face when they adopt systems like Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, and Kafka. Unravel was inspired by the Starfish Auto-tuning Hadoop platform built by Shivnath's research team. Starfish has been used by over 100 enterprise companies. Shivnath has received a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, three IBM Faculty Awards, and an HP Labs Innovation Research Award.