Raj Bains

CEO

Denver, Colorado, United States20 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder and CEO of a data transformation startup.
  • Led product management for Apache Hive at Hortonworks.
  • Pioneered compiler optimizations at NVIDIA.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on data transformation and compiler technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data TransformationAi IntegrationProduct ManagementHadoop EcosystemNewsqlEngineering ManagementRisk ModelingSoftware EngineeringCuda DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentCompiler DesignCompiler DevelopmentGraphics Programming

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithm DevelopmentAlgorithmsApache HiveAutomatic Hardware DerivationBig DataC++CUDACatastrophic Risk ModelingCode AICode GenerationCompilerCompilersComputer ArchitectureComputer Science

About

Leader in business & technology - Founder CEO of Prophecy - Product manager of Apache Hive at Hortonworks through its IPO - Founding engineer (compilers) CUDA team at NVIDIA

Experience

Prophecy

Founder CEO

Feb 2017Present · 9 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Data Transformation Copilot. Integrated Visual, Code and Generative AI using compilers/knowledge-graphs to build a compound copilot that is the most productive way of building data pipelines.
  • Replacing all ETL tools and data prep tools
Data TransformationVisual AICode AIGenerative AICompilersKnowledge Graphs+1

Hortonworks

Product Management - Apache Hive (Hadoop)

May 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Palo Alto

  • Strategy, Execution, Positioning for Apache Hive - the most used product in Hadoop ecosystem used by over 90% of Enterprise customers
StrategyExecutionPositioningHadoopApache HiveProduct Management+1

Clustrix, inc.

Director of Products

May 2012Apr 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco

  • Clustrix built distributed operational SQL database (NewSQL), allowing customers to run massive transaction volume and real-time analytics. I led product management and product marketing at the company, started in engineering.
Distributed SQL DatabaseProduct ManagementProduct MarketingReal-time AnalyticsNewSQL

Rms

Engineering Manager

Jun 2011May 2012 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led the team that built new Core Financial Engine in Catastrophic Risk (earthquake, hurricane...) modeling software for insurance/re-insurance markets.
  • Co-architected the Financial Contract Definition Language (patent), it's compiler, runtime and the web services for delivery in the cloud.
  • Wrote 80-90% of the initial prototype
  • Hired and setup 5 person team from scratch that took over the engineering work
Core Financial EngineCatastrophic Risk ModelingFinancial Contract Definition LanguageCompilerWeb ServicesEngineering Management+1

Nvidia

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2007Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Developer Technology Group (short stint)
  • Use and Evangelize CUDA, Stanford seminar, molecular dynamics
  • Compiler Group (primary work)
  • CUDA / Graphics compiler
  • Led performance efforts and designed major optimizations including entire loop optimizer, allocation, scheduling.
  • Invented 3 new algorithms, including complex rematerialization - trade secrets
CUDAGraphics CompilerPerformance OptimizationAlgorithm DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringCUDA Development

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2006Nov 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Visual studio compiler design in development and Microsoft Research. SSA based optimizations, low level optimizations and code generation.
Visual Studio Compiler DesignSSA OptimizationsCode GenerationSoftware DevelopmentCompiler Design

3dlabs

Compiler Developer

Aug 2004Feb 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Compiler development for graphics. Low level JIT optimization including value numbering, graphics features and changes to allocation, scheduling. Some work on an OpenGL tool in graphics.
Compiler DevelopmentJIT OptimizationOpenGLGraphics Programming

Inria

Research Intern

Jan 2001Jul 2001 · 6 mos · Rennes Area, France

  • Interned in COSI (Codesign on Silicium) group working on automatic derivation of hardware from functional language based on polyhedra. Worked on optimal 2-D tiling of N-D polyhedral loop iteration spaces.
Automatic Hardware DerivationFunctional LanguagePolyhedral Loop Iteration

Education

University of California, Berkeley

SkyDeck — Startup Accelerator

Jan 2018Jan 2018

University of California, Berkeley

Executive Product Management

Jan 2014Jan 2014

Colorado State University

MS — Computer Science

Jan 2003Jan 2004

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