Unravel Data CEO and leadership

Shivnath Babu is an associate professor of computer science at Duke University, where his research focuses on ease of use and manageability of data-intensive systems, automated problem diagnosis, and cluster sizing for applications running on cloud platforms. He is also the chief scientist at Unravel Data Systems, the company he cofounded to solve the application management challenges that companies face when they adopt systems like Hadoop and Spark. Unravel originated from the Starfish platform built at Duke, which has been downloaded by over 100 companies. Shivnath has received a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, three IBM Faculty Awards, and an HP Labs Innovation Research Award. He has given talks and distinguished lectures at many research conferences and universities worldwide. Shivnath has also spoken at industry conferences, such as the Hadoop Summit.

Andrew is a student Indiana University Kelley School of Business graduating in 2024 and is based in Naperville, Illinois. He is a Co-founder/Chief Operating Officer at Unravel Data. Andrew has worked as Marketing Associate at ThinkFirst Injury Prevention Foundation, Marketing Associate at Illinois Global Scholar, and Project Manager at Balboa's Cheesesteaks. He attended Naperville Central High School between 2016 and 2020.

Follow on modern-cdo.medium.comData is the new oil transforming industries, as well as benefiting humanity! I am a Data & AI/ML Leader driving the charter to extract value from data in the form of products, business analytics, and data science for ML. I have experience managing enterprise data and data science, working with business to deliver decision-driven data analytics, building intelligent AI/ML products, and the culture to democratize data within the enterprise! I have led teams from 5 people in a garage to 100+ engineers -- varying combinations of data engineers, full-stack engineers, analysts, scientists, Dev/MLOps. I am experienced in both starting as well as turning around data platforms & initiatives. My USP as a Data & AI/ML leader is bringing 20+ years of software engineering experience -- treating data-as-code, LEAN fail-fast execution, design thinking with a business impact lens, and hiring/coaching for potential. I believe in making data self-service to everyone within the enterprise for effective decision-making -- checkout my O'Reilly book covering experiences and lessons learned. A few notable accomplishments over the years:- Self-service data platform for analysts and scientists radically improving Time-to-Insight- Moving petabyte data platform to the cloud - Business metrics dashboards reported to wall-street- AI-based product used by F50 customers - GDPR and CCPA compliance- Streaming analytics platform (before Spark existed) used by government security agenciesI am passionate about knowledge sharing. I am an O'Reilly book author, have 40+ issued patents, 100s of citations for conference publications, a speaker at conferences, former co-chair of Gartner CDO Summit, SF. I love coaching:* CDO Battlescars podcast - a series where I connect with my peers to get the “real deal” when it comes to data initiatives.*10X leadership playbooks to train engineering leaders for the online era -- checkout youtube channel * DataforHumanity.org (non-profit) - coaching non-profits in harnessing the power of data and connecting them with data volunteers (person-job fit). * Data literacy newsletters within the enterprise My leadership style is to "inspire" the best work from teams by providing clarity, execution focus, & coaching/recruiting a well-rounded team! I spring out of bed every day to make outcomes happen i.e., from ideas to impact -- outcomes that are at the intersection of real customer-centric and business problems that require execution and innovation from a team of engineers/analysts/scientists.

Shivnath Babu is an associate professor of computer science at Duke University, where his research focuses on ease of use and manageability of data-intensive systems, automated problem diagnosis, and cluster sizing for applications running on cloud platforms. He is also the chief scientist at Unravel Data Systems, the company he cofounded to solve the application management challenges that companies face when they adopt systems like Hadoop and Spark. Unravel originated from the Starfish platform built at Duke, which has been downloaded by over 100 companies. Shivnath has received a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, three IBM Faculty Awards, and an HP Labs Innovation Research Award. He has given talks and distinguished lectures at many research conferences and universities worldwide. Shivnath has also spoken at industry conferences, such as the Hadoop Summit.

Andrew is a student Indiana University Kelley School of Business graduating in 2024 and is based in Naperville, Illinois. He is a Co-founder/Chief Operating Officer at Unravel Data. Andrew has worked as Marketing Associate at ThinkFirst Injury Prevention Foundation, Marketing Associate at Illinois Global Scholar, and Project Manager at Balboa's Cheesesteaks. He attended Naperville Central High School between 2016 and 2020.

Shivnath Babu is an associate professor of computer science at Duke University, where his research focuses on ease of use and manageability of data-intensive systems, automated problem diagnosis, and cluster sizing for applications running on cloud platforms. He is also the chief scientist at Unravel Data Systems, the company he cofounded to solve the application management challenges that companies face when they adopt systems like Hadoop and Spark. Unravel originated from the Starfish platform built at Duke, which has been downloaded by over 100 companies. Shivnath has received a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, three IBM Faculty Awards, and an HP Labs Innovation Research Award. He has given talks and distinguished lectures at many research conferences and universities worldwide. Shivnath has also spoken at industry conferences, such as the Hadoop Summit.