Kostas Pardalis
Co-Founder at typedef
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKostas Pardalis is a seasoned entrepreneur and data engineering leader with over a decade of experience building scalable data platforms and products across startups and growth-stage companies. As Co-Founder of typedef he’s focused on unifying inference, search, and data processing to make AI workloads stable, performant, and composable, drawing on deep hands-on experience from founding Blendo and scaling RudderStack to early revenue and a Series A. He led product for Trino at Starburst, shipping core lakehouse connectors, engine performance work, and SQL features while helping double the Trino community and forge strategic partnerships like the BigQuery integration. Technically fluent—from architecting fault-tolerant ELT systems on Kafka to designing data warehouses and ETL/ELT pipelines—he pairs that expertise with product strategy, GTM thinking, and people leadership. Based in California with academic roots in electrical and computer engineering, he blends research-grade foundations (semantic web and data management) with a track record of exits and platform-level engineering. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to translate low-level engineering constraints into commercial partnerships and go-to-market motion that scale.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Strategic Human Resources Management, MSc Strategic Human Resources Management at Alba Graduate Business SchoolBachelor and Master of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor and Master of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English, Greek
Github Skills (50)
routes10
segment10
data-synchronization9
customer-data9
metadata9
rudderstack8
database8
data-warehouse8
clickstream8
pipeline8
customer-data-pipeline8
customer-data-lake8
data-platform8
cdp8
singer8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cpard/serde
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:10 PRs, 15 pushes, 9 branches in 2 days
cpard/scuel
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 11 days
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