Venkatesh Seetharam
Co-Founder at Startups
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVenkatesh Seetharam is a seasoned enterprise technology leader, investor, and founder with over a decade of experience building data platforms and backing category-defining startups. He co-founded startups and led engineering teams at Yahoo! and Hortonworks, where he helped build Hadoop-scale data management and launched Apache Atlas for data governance. As a former Partner at Capital One Ventures and current investor at 8VC, he has a strong track record of early-stage investments in Snowflake, ThoughtSpot, Fauna, Outlier, and others that shaped modern data and cloud infrastructure. Venkatesh blends deep technical instincts—he was part of the team that built Hadoop at Yahoo!—with venture-scale judgment, regularly advising startups on product-market and engineering strategy. He remains active in the Apache community as a mentor and committer, demonstrating a long-term commitment to open-source driven platforms. Based in the Bay Area, he combines operator credibility with venture experience to accelerate enterprise innovation in data, analytics, and infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bengaluru University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
storm10
apache-atlas10
atlas10
java10
falcon10
streaming10
apache9
apache-storm8
big-data7
twitter4
stream4
messaging4
heron4
fault3
fault-tolerant3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/falcon
Jul 2013 - Nov 2014
Mirror of Apache Falcon
Contributions:233 commits in 1 year 3 months
javafalconapache
apache/incubator-atlas
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Mirror of Apache Atlas (Incubating)
Contributions:155 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
incubatingapacheapache-atlasatlasjava
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