Vivek Gopalan
Investing & Building at 8VC
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVivek Gopalan is an investor and builder based in San Francisco with nine years of experience at the intersection of enterprise data, software infrastructure, and B2B SaaS. A Yale Computer Science graduate and Harvard MBA student, he blends hands-on engineering—work on distributed SQL and colocated partitioning at Yugabyte and end-to-end ML pipelines at Bloomberg—with venture investing at 8VC. He has a track record of shipping production systems spanning distributed databases, data infrastructure, and applied ML, and he’s comfortable moving between coding, product, and go-to-market conversations. Early research and digital humanities projects show a knack for combining NLP, topic modeling, and graph problems to extract real insights from messy data. Colleagues describe him as equally at home optimizing partition schemes as evaluating founder-market fit, a useful duality for technical diligence. He can be reached at vivek(at)8vc.com.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
4.0, 4.0 at The Overlake SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Yale University4.0, 4.0 at Interlake High SchoolMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Harvard Business School
Spanish, English, Tamil
Github Skills (14)
databases10
c-language10
database-administration10
cpp10
postgresql10
cprogramming-language10
admin10
sql10
database-design10
database10
yugabytedb10
sql-database9
distributed-database9
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vvkgopalan/yugabyte-db
May 2020 - Aug 2020
The high-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps.
Contributions:10 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
dbmsrdbmsdistributed-sql-databasedistributed-systemsdatabase
vvkgopalan/dota-drafter
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
A custom AI designed to provide drafting practice in Captains Mode.
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
artificial-intelligencedrafting
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