Venky is currently busy learning how to enable engineering teams across all enterprises spend most of their time in creating new business value rather than on various types of testing during the software development and deployment lifecycle. He is a co-founder and the CEO of Mesh Dynamics, Inc. Prior to Mesh Dynamics, he was a co-founder and CTO of Alation where he helped define and evangelize the new product category of Data Catalogs. While at Google, he worked on a data product called Dynamic Search Ads where he created data pipelines (for machine learning and data enrichment as well as transformation) at web scale. While at Microsoft Research, he initiated and productized several projects and holds more than 35 granted patents. Venky graduated with a PhD in Machine Learning and Databases from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.