Tarang Vaish — CTO

Engineering leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, GPU architecture, AI infrastructure, and category-defining platforms across storage, security, and large-scale data systems. Before co-founding Granica, led core engineering efforts at Cohesity as a Senior Staff Engineer, where he built their flagship fully distributed storage platform from the ground up. Served as a Founding Engineer at Armorblox, helping launch an AI-powered email security platform—developing its SQL query system, CI pipeline, and REST APIs. Earlier in his career, designed and delivered 2D/3D GPU architectures as OpenGL ES and Performance Manager at Vivante, and contributed to GPU compute SDK design as a software engineer at AMD. Now Co-Founder and CTO of Granica, helping lead the charge in building a first-of-its-kind system that compresses and reshapes cloud data in real time, enabling organizations to cut storage and compute costs by over 50% (without touching their pipelines or compromising speed). Designed for petabyte-to-exabyte scale, deployed directly on cloud object stores, and built for full transparency and compatibility with open data formats like Parquet and Iceberg. A rare blend of deep systems engineering, statistical modeling, and real-world cost impact. Distributed Systems | C++ | Rust | Data Compression | Entropy Models | SIMD / Vectorized Execution | Parquet | Apache Iceberg | Apache Arrow | Query Execution Engines | Memory Management | Cloud Object Storage (S3, GCS) | Open Source Contributor | Lakehouse Architecture | Performance Engineering | Multithreading | Storage Engine Design

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in SaaS and Cloud Computing with expertise in distributed systems and AI infrastructure.

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Experience: 19 yrs 3 mos