Vinoo Ganesh
CEO & Co-Founder at Kepler
New York, New York, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolVinoo Ganesh is a founder and engineering leader with eight years of experience building large-scale data and AI systems, currently CEO and Co-Founder of Kepler where he raised $7.25M to build a ground-truth platform for trustworthy AI agents. He previously scaled Veraset to $15M+ ARR as CTO, led compute and Spark efforts at Palantir (including patented optimizations), and drove production investment software at Citadel. Vinoo blends deep distributed-systems expertise with product-facing delivery—building everything from Spark-based ETL and ACL-protected embedding platforms to an AI chatbot for the NYC MTA. He runs a consulting studio, Efficiently, producing education content and modernizing projects like the Apache Parquet website, demonstrating a knack for developer experience and community work. Based in New York, he pairs technical authorship and hands-on execution with investor-grade credibility, attracting backers from OpenAI and top AI/ML firms. An understated strength: he focuses on operationalizing safe, compliant embeddings and context management—practical engineering that makes enterprise AI trustworthy.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Finance, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Finance at Washington University in St. LouisComputer Science Philosophy, Computer Science Philosophy at King's College LondonGraduate Certificate Databases Computer Science, Graduate Certificate Databases Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (91)
apache-spark10
python10
hadoop10
ruby10
automation10
parquet10
orchestration10
avro10
r10
big-data10
linux10
scheduler10
scale10
sql10
data-processing10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vinooganesh/spark
Mar 2020 - Apr 2024
Apache Spark
Contributions:13 PRs, 27 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
spark-mlapachebig-datasparkscala
vinooganesh/parquet-mr
Sep 2021 - May 2024
Apache Parquet
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 8 months
parquetapachebig-dataapache-parquetjava
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.