Vivek Bharathan

Vivek is the Cofounder and Principal Software Engineer at Ahana. Previously, Vivek was a Software Engineer at Uber where he managed Presto clusters with more than 2,500 nodes, processing 35PB of data per day, and worked on extending Presto to supprt Uber's interactive analytics needs. Prior to Uber, Vivek was an early member of the query-optimizer team at Vertica Systems and made several contributions to the core database engine and the Vertica ecosystem. Earlier in his career at the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, he developed emerging technologies in decision-support systems and reasoning systems. His Presto contributions include the pushdown of partial aggregations. Vivek holds a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University.