Alekh Jindal
CEO And Co-founder at Tursio
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolAlekh Jindal is a data systems entrepreneur and research-driven engineering leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale query and optimization systems and now leading Tursio as CEO and co-founder to "turn data into intelligence." His background spans principal research and engineering roles at Microsoft—where he published multiple VLDB/SIGMOD/ICDE papers on learning optimizers, computation reuse, and workload-aware query planning—and postdoctoral research at MIT and Saarland focused on in-database graph analytics and adaptive partitioning. Alekh has repeatedly bridged deep research and production: designing scalable algorithms for subexpression selection and workload optimization that were deployed in massive cloud services. He combines startup grit (founding chief architect and CTO roles at Keebo) with rigorous academic training (PhD from Universität des Saarlandes and postdoc at MIT), making him fluent in both productization and publishing. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he specializes in search over structured data and systems that let enterprises ask complex questions of their data. A less obvious strength is his consistent track record of turning theoretical optimizations into practical, datacenter-scale systems that materially reduce cloud query costs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Universität des SaarlandesIndian Institute of Technology KanpurPostdoc Computer Science, Postdoc Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at International Max Planck Research School, SaarbrueckenPhysics Chemistry Mathematics, Physics Chemistry Mathematics at St. Joseph's College, AllahabadProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alekhjindal/alekhjindal.github.io
Sep 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:52 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 10 months
mitdbg/graph-on-db
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
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