The founders
Alexander is a startup entrepreneur and seasoned executive with more than 15 years of experience in the domains of big data, data processing, distributed data, AI, ML, and IoT. Prior to founding Databloom, he founded Infinite Devices, X-Warp, and Infinimesh and held various developer-related roles in Cloudera or T-Mobile (Telekom) as well as data-related executive roles in E.ON, Allianz, Evariant (Healthgrades), and Scout24. He also contributed to various open source projects, including Apache Wayang, Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache Flume, and Apache HBase.
Kaustubh co-founded Databloom as a founding engineer, driven by his work on automated, regulation-compliant data processing. Kaustubh earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the renowned Max-Planck Institute and the University of Mannheim (Germany). He has published multiple papers in highly ranked journals since 2012. Kaustubh has built the federated SQL layer in Blossom Sky and leads the technical efforts of DataBloom AI as CTO. He is highly anticipated in the data science industry and currently teaches data management at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Jessica is a longtime senior executive in the financial industry. She worked at Wall Street for 15 years, including roles as VP for Securities Division at Goldman Sachs and VP of Model Validation at Deutsche Bank. Jessica earned her Phd specializing in Financial Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Industrial Organization from Iowa State University, and she's passionate about operational efficiency and financial analytics. Jessica has a long history of startup experience and has guided several startups as a board member in making strategic decisions.
Jorge started to investigate the topic of Federated Data Processing and distributed AI in 2015. The team developed Rheem in 2016 and presented the software stack at the Spark Summit 2017 followed by multiple conferences. Jorge was a professor and taught distributed data processing at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Jorge passed unexpectedly away in 2023.
Members of our team are frequent speakers at large conventions and meetups, like newWork summit, SXSW, Big Data World, Apache Con, BOSS, Developer Week, etc.
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