Engineering manager II @ Verily (Alphabet). Prior CEO of NeuroLex (acquired by Sonde) and prior investor in 20+ early-stage companies through Chris Klaus family office. Mentored 100 individuals in their careers, including CEOs, CTOs, SWEs, data scientists, and interns in many roles.
Ben's experience spans multiple industries, including healthcare at McKesson, where he served as IT - Business Unit Information Security Officer from 2010-2014. Prior to that, he was in Corporate Information Security at Lockheed Martin from 1998-2010. He also held leadership roles at Ionic Security (acquired by Twilio) and Groupon (CISO).
Prior Senior SWE @ Squarespace - 10+ years experience in distributed systems/databases. Tech lead @ DigitalOcean in the managed databases group (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, and Kafka). Managing the app platform team and organization to build scalable and robust technical foundations.
Staff software engineer @ Indeed.com - built infrastructure for AI vector search with approximate nearest neighbors. Excited about patenting and publishing our work in peer-reviewed journals and helping to coordinate near-term applications for our prompt-to-app initiatives.
Alaap brings a wealth of experience in driving successful cloud-based AI/security products and teams. He has previously served as product manager at Datadog (Compute/Processes), Senior Product Manager at TimescaleDB, and Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks (AI/ML IoT initiatives).
Wrote the paper Reduction and Coherent States and thesis on Propagation and Reduction of Coherent States in Bargmann Spaces. Jenia is leveraging her background in mathematics to help build LLM agents for prompt-to-app and a miscellaneous set of data science problems.
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