Ajay Kulkarni
Co-Founder CEO at TigerData (creators of TimescaleDB)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAjay Kulkarni is a founder-CEO and builder with 12+ years of experience turning hard infrastructure problems into elegant developer experiences. He co-founded Timescale (now TigerData) in 2017 to deliver a PostgreSQL-native platform for time-series, real-time analytics, and AI-native workloads, and now leads a 200-person fully remote team powering mission-critical systems at companies like Mistral, Hugging Face, Nvidia, Toyota, and NASA. Under his leadership TigerData serves 2,000+ customers, operates millions of active databases, and has raised $180M to scale developer-first data infrastructure. An MIT-trained computer scientist and MIT Sloan MBA, Ajay blends deep technical chops with product and go-to-market instincts honed through prior startups and early exits. He writes and speaks on databases and AI-augmented engineering, and quietly favors pragmatic, developer-focused design decisions that make complex systems simple to adopt.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng. Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), M.Eng. Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.B.A. Entrepreneurship, M.B.A. Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of ManagementHS Diploma, HS Diploma at Newark Academy
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Github Skills (99)
timeseries-database10
postgresql10
postgresql-extension10
financial-analysis10
sql10
database10
analytics10
iot10
timescaledb10
sql-database10
time-series10
ingest10
deprecated10
ai9
easy-install9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
iobeam/sample-android-battery-data
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 8 months
sample-androidclient-libraryandroidkotlinjava
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