SriSatish Ambati

Sri is co-founder and CEO of H2O (@h2oai), the builders of H2O. H2O democratizes big data science and makes Hadoop do math for better predictions. Before H2O, Sri spent time scaling R over big data with researchers at Purdue and Stanford. Sri also co-founded Platfora and was the Director of Engineering at DataStax. He was a partner and performance engineer at the java multi-core startup, Azul Systems, tinkering with the entire ecosystem of enterprise apps at scale. Sri has also pursued theoretical neuroscience at Berkeley, and has worked on NoSQL trie-based index for semi-structured data at the in-memory index startup RightOrder.

Sri is known for his knack for envisioning killer apps in fast evolving spaces and assembling stellar teams to productize that vision. A regular speaker in the BigData, NoSQL and Java circuit, Sri leaves a trail @srisatish.