Company
Founded by a professor and graduates of the UC Berkeley RISE Lab, Ponder is the only company that helps data teams run popular data science libraries, such as pandas, directly on cloud–native data warehouses.
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Mission
Our mission is to improve data science productivity by empowering users to do data science at all scales. We help data teams get to scalable insights faster, while preserving the ease-of-use and flexibility of the pandas API.
Join usOur Team
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Doris Lee
CEO
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Aditya Parameswaran
President
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Devin Petersohn
CTO
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Mahesh Vashishtha
Founding Software Engineer
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Naren Krishna
Founding Software Engineer
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Rehan Durrani
Founding Software Engineer
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Labanya Mukhopadhyay
Software Engineer
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Alejandro Herrera
Solution Architect
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Bala Atur
Staff Software Engineer
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Peter Olson
Chief of Staff
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Hazem Elmeleegy
Founding Architect
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Jonathan Shi
Software Engineer
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Medha Atre
Research Scientist
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John Kew
Principal Engineer
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Advisors
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Matt Harrison
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Vikram Madan
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Mike Olson
Investors
Ponder is supported by amazing investors and advisors, including Lightspeed, 8VC, Intel Capital, and the House Fund
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