We want to change how teams work with data
While building Apple’s internal ML data management platform (SIGMOD ‘19), co-founders Yucheng, Ajit, and Rajat noticed that every team experienced the same challenges when experimenting with large scale data.
Seeing the opportunity to have wider impact across multiple industries, they founded XetHub in October 2021 to approach the problem from a new direction. Our vision is to enable delightful collaboration on code and data at any scale.
The dream team
Yucheng Low
Yucheng Low
Yucheng was a co-founder and the Chief Architect at Turi, a ML startup acquired by Apple in 2016. At Apple, he worked on different parts of the ML platform stack ranging from storage to inference. His native language is C++, but Rust is rapidly becoming his new favorite. In his spare time, he bikes long distances and trains for triathlons. As of 2022 he still does not have a driving license.
Ajit Banerjee
Ajit Banerjee
Ajit is a co-founder at XetHub. His two decades of engineering experience included stints at Inktomi, Amazon (where he was part of the founding EC2 team in 2006), Facebook, and Apple. He has an entrepreneurial habit, having founded two other startups prior to XetData, one of which was acquired by BlueKai/Oracle. When not hacking, Ajit can be found savoring fine cocktails in Seattle bars and enjoying the beauty of the Pacific Northwest (hiking in the summer and skiing in the winter).
Rajat Arya
Rajat Arya
Rajat is a co-founder at XetHub. Rajat has spent most of his 20 years in industry building large scale distributed systems at Microsoft, AWS, and Apple. He joined Yucheng at Turi as the first employee, and has been building systems for ML ever since. At Apple, Rajat started and led the data platform team, presenting the group’s work at SIGMOD `19. At XetData, he wants to code more, but instead spends most of his time talking with customers and building cool demos. Outside of work, you'll find him spending time with his two small children, watching sports (NBA, NFL) or bad movies, or planning his next novice woodworking project.
Yonatan Alexander
Yonatan Alexander
Yonatan is a developer advocate at XetHub. An early adopter of Turi and pioneer in serverless machine learning, he was a founder's engineer in BuiltOn, Cybear, and Vaex. He spent his last 9 years helping startups implement machine learning and design smart solutions. At XetHub, he builds cool stuff and gives technical talks. In his free time, you can find him playing volleyball, basketball, and guitar, doing improv and teaching salsa.
Joseph Godlewski
Joseph Godlewski
Joe is a sofware engineer who has spent the past 8 years building distributed systems. He started his career at Yahoo, working on teams like Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Finance. He then joined Apple to work on the data management components for their machine learning platform. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games, learning to cook new recipes, and finding uses for his 3D printer.
Sam Horradarn
Sam Horradarn
Sam is a software engineer with experiences working with systems that handle large amount of data. Prior to joining Xethub, he worked at Apple on developing blob storage for machine learning teams across Apple and improving large-scale answer extraction process for Siri’s open-domain question answering capability. In his spare time, Sam enjoys honing his culinary skills with new dishes and kitchen gadgets, exploring Seattle’s restaurant scenes and running outdoors.
Ann Huang
Ann Huang
Ann is a product person with experience across computer science, robotics, business, and user-centered design. After a decade at Boeing working on everything from autopilot simulation to flight deck concepts, she joined Turi as a senior product designer prior to leading product for Apple's internal ML compute platform. Ann enjoys playing ultimate frisbee, cooking and consuming delicious food, and enjoying the outdoors with her family.
Srini Kadamati
Srini Kadamati
Srini is a data person who has worked in product, developer relations, and education across 5 different startups. He’s very passionate about making data easier to use, especially for data practitioners who don’t have traditional software engineering background. At XetHub, he helps manage our Content & Community efforts. Outside of work, he indulges in coffee, tennis, video games, travel, and books.
Hoyt Koepke
Hoyt Koepke
Hoyt studied physics, statistics, and machine learning before joining Turi in 2013 as an early employee to work on scalable machine learning solutions aimed at non-ML developers. After Turi was acquired by Apple, he worked on core ML libraries at Apple, including CoreML and CreateML. His main interests include optimization, algorithms, ML, and scalable data processing. At XetHub, Hoyt is often writing low-level Rust code in our git extension and looking for ways to squeeze out more performance. Outside of technical work, Hoyt enjoys backpacking, hiking, mixology, coffee, and artistic metalworking.
Zach Nation
Zach Nation
Zach is a software engineer with broad experience across UI/UX, web, compilers, and data analysis and visualization. Prior to XetHub, he worked at Apple on system frameworks and at Turi on visualization. He likes mechanical keyboards, fountain pens, and playing chess.
Saba Noorassa
Saba Noorassa
Saba is a software engineer with experience in framework development, data visualization, and full stack web dev. Prior to joining XetHub he worked at Apple for three years designing and developing the Swift Charts framework. As an undergraduate researcher in the University of Washington's Interactive Data Lab (IDL) he contributed to Vega-Lite a concise, declarative JSON grammar for building interactive data visualizations. In his spare time he enjoys eating delicious food, learning to cook, drinking coffee, reading non-fiction, going on walks, and playing video games with friends.
Prasid Pathak
Prasid Pathak
Prasid is a five-time head of marketing and two-time head of sales. Prasid started his career at Microsoft in Seattle, has lead marketing teams at SoFi and Twilio in Silicon Valley, and moved to New York to lead marketing for Codecademy. When not doing marketing, Prasid writes about marketing and plans adventures with his family and dog.
Brian Ronan
Brian Ronan
Brian is a software engineer who has been working in technology for over two decades. He's a technical polymath, having worked on all layers of the stack and in all sorts of roles from silicon design to support to visual design. Over the years, he's designed and built award winning software applications for companies big and small. He would have a Webby if dark museum money hadn't organized a last-minute, nefarious smear campaign against his app, but he's not bitter at all. In his spare time, he enjoys doing improv, swimming in the ocean, and making up convoluted stories about why he hasn't won a Webby yet.
Assaf Vayner
Assaf Vayner
Assaf is a software engineer with immense enthusiasm for building efficient and scalable programs with bleeding edge tech. He has with a background in robotics, low level systems and building web services, with particular experience building tools for software developers. When he’s not working, Assaf enjoys playing puzzle games (killer sudoku topping the charts), cooking, brewing specialty coffee, and the occasional video game.
Allison Whilden
Allison Whilden
Allison is a product designer with a background in data visualization, machine learning, and developer tools. She gained experience in building for scale while at Microsoft, how to support rich collaboration at GitLab, and how to make data more approachable at Tableau and Databricks. Allison enjoys working at all levels of design, from perfecting pixels to unifying a whole system of experiences. When she's not creating digital artifacts, she can be found learning a new hobby, whether it's sewing, 3D printing, origami, or any other craft she recently discovered from a YouTube video.
Di Xiao
Di Xiao
Di Xiao is a software engineer with a research background. Before joining XetHub, he had experience building Hadoop at Meta and did research in massive graph computations, cache systems, and high-performance memory abstractions. When he's not busy optimizing code, he's conquering tough rock climbing routes or learning new human languages like Spanish, French, and German.
Junpeng Xiao
Junpeng Xiao
Junpeng is a software engineer with a passion for machine learning infrastructure. He started his industry journey at Microsoft Research Asia, traveled through Meta and Google, and now has landed at XetHub. Back in 2013, Junpeng benchmarked GraphLab (later known as Turi) performance vs. Hadoop as an undergraduate. He had totally no idea that he would work with the founders of GraphLab ten years later. Outside of work, he views himself as a great chef. His dishes usually go empty first during potlucks.
Kelton Zhang
Kelton Zhang
Kelton enjoys developing tech applications to create end user value and benefit the society at large. He recently graduated from CMU and has previously interned at NetEase, DJI, HP, Jina AI, Wyze, and two VC firms. Kelton has built software under different contexts from building automation as the only developer in a financial firm, leading a startup team to build a college counseling chatbot, and contributing to a trending open source community project. Outside of work, Kelton likes playing basketball and Go.
The Zen of Xet
As a diverse group of people from various backgrounds, we all have different perspectives. How constructively we move forward from conflicts defines who we are as a company. Building trust in the people who surround us allows us to create an atmosphere of responsiveness and self-reflection, while leaving room for differences of opinion. Our values guide our behavior.
Insane Customer Focus
Think from the customer viewpoint and don’t settle for just good enough; build and deliver products that our customers love.
Empathy and Candor
Communicate openly, directly, and respectfully. Be transparent and provide constructive feedback, both positive and negative.
Intentional Inclusivity
Prioritize providing all stakeholders opportunities to be heard in decisions that involve them to build team trust.
Make It Happen
Build our product and our company like it’s yours, because it is. Do what you feel needs to be done to help us succeed as a team.
Share and Celebrate Success
When you win, we all win. Motivate each other and take the time to celebrate our successes together, both in life and work.