My name is Vinoo and I’m the CEO & Co-Founder of Kepler, where we’re building the next generation of data and AI platforms. We’re a team of engineers from Palantir, Citadel, Meta, Stanford, and PhysicsX, backed by founders of OpenAI, Facebook AI, MotherDuck, dbt, Outerbounds, and others.
Before Kepler, I was Head of Business Engineering for Ashler at Citadel, CTO of Veraset (a geospatial data-as-a-service startup processing 2+ TB daily for 80+ customers), and started my career at Palantir, where I worked on its search and indexing backend, managed its Spark/YARN compute platform, and designed Project Frontline, the program for scaling Palantir’s Forward Deployed Engineering team.
I teach data engineering, dbt, and AI engineering on LinkedIn Learning, advise a handful of startups, and serve on Washington University’s McKelvey Engineering National Council and Alumni Board of Governors.
I write about data engineering, AI, and building systems in my writing, and share talks & courses and projects I’ve built. See what I’m up to now.
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