At Mach5, our mission is to enable our customers to collect, organize, and make accessible every piece of data in order to build, grow, and protect their business.Mach5 Search, our flagship product, brings the power of OpenSearch to Google BigQuery.

Polymer provides real time monitoring, redaction, and permission of sensitive data within SaaS for organizations.

StarTree unleashes the power of user-facing analytics through quick actionable insights by providing Apache Pinot as a SaaS platform.

X15 Software built the first massively parallel machine-data management platform bringing together the power of SQL and full-text search in one system. As the founder of a self-funded company, I got to wear multiple hats. I played the role of Product Manager, Developer, Sales Engineer, and Support. I got the opportunity to grow the engineering team from a team of 1 (me) to about 20 stellar individuals. I assisted with the go-to-market activities and sales and marketing strategies. X15 Software was acquired by FireEye in 2018.

Worked on the initial NSF grant to start the AsterixDB project at UC Irvine. Key initial contributor to the AsterixDB codebase. Managed development all the way from its early days until it was a fully functional Big Data database. Was responsible for mentoring students, overall architecture and design of the system, and software development lifecycle policies. AsterixDB is a top level project under the Apache Foundation.