Dev Nag is a serial founder and technical leader with nine years of formal experience and a two-decade track record building high-scale, real-time systems from finance to cloud observability. He founded Wavefront (acquired by VMware), led product and engineering directions that supported major enterprises, and now runs QueryPal, focusing on AI agents that act in production. His background spans founding engineering roles at high-throughput trading and payments platforms, early-stage health-tech, and research in mathematical modeling and time-series similarity—an uncommon blend of theory and hands-on systems engineering. Based in the Bay Area, he combines product strategy (Harvard Business School Online certificate) with deep technical chops in distributed systems and observability. Notably, he’s taken teams from startup inception through fundraising and acquisition, demonstrating repeatable operational and go-to-market execution.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Disruptive Strategy, Certificate Disruptive Strategy at Harvard Business School Online
Medical Student Medicine, Medical Student Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine
B.S. Mathematics B.A. Psychology, B.S. Mathematics B.A. Psychology at Stanford University
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