H2O.ai Makers

Aamir is from Nottingham in England (which you may be familiar with from the tale of Robin Hood!). He has worked exclusively for successful start-ups within the DC/Cloud/SaaS space in Business Development and Channel, including as Datrium’s second employee in EMEA.

He studied Music and Multimedia at Birmingham City University, where he was also their Resident DJ for 5 years and has since continued to DJ in his spare time, DJing with a host of celebrities including Hodor from Game of Thrones! He has recently become a father, and pre-baby and pre-pandemic he enjoyed exploring the world in any spare time he had, visiting 28 countries over the last 5 years.

VP of Sales, APAC

Abhishek is part of the product management team at H2O.ai. He has extensive experience building machine learning and deep learning products at various startups and F100 companies. Outside of work, Abhishek enjoys teaching and coaching budding product managers. He has always been fascinated by new technologies, including blockchain/crypto/NFTs, AR/VR/metaverse, quantum computing, and more. When he's not thinking about product management or technology, Abhishek enjoys sipping on craft beers and single malt scotch.

Hello, my name is Adam Valenta. I am a Software Engineer at H2o.ai.

Recently, I have obtained a master's degree in Data Science from the Czech Technical University. I have started to cooperate with H2O.ai in my last year at university to create my master theses aimed at Anomaly detection using Extended Isolation Forest under the supervision of Veronika Maurerová from H2O.ai. Our successful cooperation leads me to the company. I also have a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, and I would love to connect those two fields at the H2O by creating brilliant software for data scientists.

Before H2O.ai, besides my studies, I worked as a half-time Java Developer for a mid-size company where we supplied IT services for various European businesses.

In my spare time, I like to do something complementary to working at the office. I am always up for all kinds of sports. Currently, it is jogging. I want to attend Army Run in the Czech Republic next year.

I am also interested in cooking, homebrewing, motorbikes, traveling, and taking care of our summer house with my family. Finally, if I am too lazy, I am a big fan of good movies, TV shows, or computer games.

Akshaya is a Chartered Accountant and Cost accountant from Chennai, India. Prior to H2O she used to work for Ernst & Young. She has close to 8 years of experience in the Audit and Finance domain.

Alan has joined H2O as a Sr. Sales Accounts Director to grow new major accounts in the NJ/NY area. He brings with him over 22 years’ experience in individual sales contributor and sales leadership positions at Aerospike, Microsoft, HP, Sybase, Nortel/Alteon, Aruba Networks and Mocana working directly with Fortune 500 accounts and Service Provider partners.

He is located in Bridgewater, NJ and has completed Executive Education programs in Leadership & Management from Wharton Business School, Sales Management & Channel Management from Harvard Business School and holds a Computer Information Systems degree from Union College. Alan enjoys music, playing drums, piano and golf.

Alfredo is an accomplished client services professional with over 20 years of post-sales and account management experience. he has built several post sales groups from the ground up including system networks, security experts and cloud environments.

Alfredo lives in the East Bay (Albany) and in his spare time likes to go hiking and camping around the Bay Area with his wife and two children. He is also an avid cook (and eater) and would love to have a beer with you one day soon...

Aman is based out of Bangalore, India and will be joining from Cloudera. He has experience with Linux, Hadoop, Security, etc.

Aman is an avid biker and loves to travel. In his free time he also likes playing Cricket, Badminton, and Table tennis.

From Zilog Z80 assembly to z/OS JCL, I enjoyed learning it all and I've joined H2O to learn some more. I'm a SDET with experience in businesses as diverse as business intelligence platform, software development tools, mainframe DB management or video on demand platform.

I’m not only making friends with the computers, but also enjoy playing bass in a garage punk band.

Anmol has a operations and build/test background. In the past he has worked with small digital agency and a global marketing and advertising company.

Anmol likes being the in-between person with operations, QA and engineers. He loves learning new things and always tries to expand his knowledge of everything.

In his spare time Anmol likes to go on adventures and work on anything with two wheels bicycles and motorcycles.

Arthur Kantor has been doing software development professionally for over 22 years.  Prior to joining H2O.ai, he worked at the IBM Prague lab as a team lead for an automated reading tutor and as one of the team leads working on the Watson speech-to-text and text-to-speech services. 

Arthur received his computer science doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign focusing on automatic speech recognition.

Asghar Ghorbani is a lead solutions engineer for the DACH region who is based in Germany. Previously, Asghar held a position of "customer-facing data scientist" DataRobot. During his time there, he delivered data science solutions to customers across a variety of industries to add value to their organizations. Prior to that Asghar was a data scientist at Volkswagen Data:Lab where he was responsible for the industrializing of AI solutions in manufacturing. Previously, Asghar held research and scientist roles at the National Metrology Institute of Germany and the Technical University in Munich

Ashrith is the security scientist designing anomalous detection algorithms at H2O. He recently graduated from the Center of Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University with a PhD in Information security. He is specialized in anomaly detection on networks under the guidance of Dr. William S. Cleveland.

He tries to break into anything that has an operating system, sometimes into things that don’t. He has been christened as “The Only Human Network Packet Sniffer” by his advisors.

When he is not working he swims and bikes long distances.

Ben is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon. He has extensive experience developing web apps at scale, creating interactive dashboards, and building human-robot interfaces.

Ben is passionate about open source software and user-driven design. His hobbies include Ultimate Frisbee, improv, and adventures in the Pacific Northwest.

Ben Cox is a Director of Product Marketing at H2O.ai where he helps lead Responsible AI market research and thought leadership. Prior to H2O.ai, Ben held data science roles in high-profile teams at Ernst & Young, Nike, and NTT Data. Ben holds a MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with multiple analytics concentrations and a BS in Economics from the College of Charleston.

As the Vice President of Technical Services, Customer Success at H2O.ai, Bernie is responsible for Professional Services, Customer Engineering, and Customer Data Science.

Prior to H2O, Bernie was Head of Technical Services & Operations at PerimeterX and Senior Director of Advanced Services at BlueJeans.  At BlueJeans, he was part of the founding team and a key member of the leadership team that led the company through a successful acquisition (by Verizon).  Bernie holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCDavis.

Robin is a Data/System Solution Architect for H2O.ai professional service team, before H2O.ai, he worked for Ericsson Canada for almost 10 years, he also participated in building Canada's first 5G network, a strong background in e2e telco solution, Cloud/K8S, Machine Learning/AI models and algorithms, also on 5G/ARVR/ edge computing in various verticals. he is currently pursuing 2nd master's in Computer Science specialized in Machine Learning.

Brendan is a Senior Account Executive based in Dallas, Texas.  Brendan has 15 years experience in Enterprise Sales with a background in Analytics and Data Science, and a degree from the University of Illinois.  He enjoys traveling with his wife, playing games with his daughters, and cheering on his favorite teams.

Bryan will lead our public cloud and ISV partnership globally, working for Rod Hamlin. Bryan is joining H2O.ai for Okta where he led public cloud and strategic partnerships. Prior to that Bryan held various roles in business development, product management and marketing for other enterprise software and SaaS companies.

Bryan lives in Seattle, moving there from the east coast in the mid 90s, with his wife Bethany and three children - Olivia (15), Ben (12) and Jackson (8). Weekends are filled with youth sports, the occasional round of golf and getting out on the water weather permitting.

Chad is Head of North America Channels & Global System Integrators where he is responsible for NA reseller and SI sales. Chad has 22 years of Channel Sales and partner experience. Recently he was VP of Channel Sales for the Americas at Blue Prism an RPA and AI company.

Chad is based in Houston, TX and lives with his wife and 3 kids. His oldest son just started college and his other 2 kids are in middle school and high school.

Chaz is a Sales Development Representative for H2O.ai, with over 10 years in sales and business development experience. He serves as the initial point of contact for customers in southern and central United States as well as the EMEA region. Chaz is excited about the potential uses for Driverless AI and what the future holds for AI and Machine Learning.

Chaz is based out of Atlanta, GA. On weekends, you can find him on a golf course, catching a local comedy show, or hanging out with family and friends.

Senior Accountant

Daniel has more than 20 years in developing business in Latin America most of them helping customers to find innovative solutions regarding data. Daniel holds and MBA in Northwestern University and several extension courses regarding strategy and businesses development. Father of twins, Daniel is an avid cyclist and always looking for a perfect mountain to climb with his bike.

I am located in Houston Texas and have responsibility for developing the Energy vertical here at H20.ai. I have been involved in real time data for the last decade. I previously developed the Oil and Gas vertical for a big data company and spent over 6 years with Oracle in field sales roles marketing into the energy sector.  

I enjoy SEC football, Bruins hockey, running and playing golf. My wife Danielle and I have two daughters Aubrey and Kathryn.

Das Narayanan is Vice President of People at H2O.ai

David Engler is a Senior Data Scientist and the Director of Customer Success at H2O. He has 15 years of experience leading data science teams in healthcare research and analytics and has over 20 publications in medical analytics as a primary author. He most recently built and led the analytics team for healthcare strategy at the University of Utah hospitals and clinics. David obtained his PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University.

David Whiting is the Head of Global Training at H2O.ai. David has a Ph.D. in Statistics from Texas A&M University, with a background in computational statistics and big data analytics. He has over 25 years of experience teaching, leading teams, and building and deploying machine learning models to solve real world problems in industry and academia.

In his spare time, David enjoys the outdoors and spending time with his wife and children.

Dmitry has more than 10 years of experience in IT. Starting with data warehousing and BI, now in big data and data science.

He has a lot of experience in predictive analytics software development for different domains and tasks.

He is also a Kaggle Grandmaster who loves to use his machine learning and data science skills on Kaggle competitions.

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Over 15 years of web and web application development experience delivering enterprise front end solutions (strong emphasis on data visualization) for companies such as: Google, Intuit, McKinsey & CO, Bank of America and eTrade. All phases: Program management, lead development, and senior development roles. For past 5-6 years primarily focused on Single Page Applications(SPAs) using Google Angular framework.

Drew is responsible for onboarding, ramping and developing our go-to-market teams. He is joining H2O.ai from Databook, where he held leadership positions in Sales, Marketing and Product.

Drew is local to the Bay Area and earned his BS in Operations Management and Information Systems (OMIS) from Northern Illinois University. In his downtime, Drew enjoys playing golf and participating in other outdoor activities.

A Software Engineer, Edgar studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley.  Before H2O, Edgar was a Lead Software Engineer building high-performance microservices in Scala.  He engineered data pipelines at Hortonworks and was the architect of the company's new generation of data platform environments for the desktop.

When not glued to one of his machines, he can be found volunteering, playing board games or D&D, or on a mission to find the best nachos in town.

Elena is a Software Engineer at H2O. She is mainly focused on backend development, has experience with building enterprise software, web application development, relational databases optimization and data analysis.
She is holding a specialist's degree in Complex protection of Information objects. Prior to joining H2O, she has been working as a Software Engineer on different projects varying from development of firmware for power supply systems using C/C++ and Java to implementation of analytical and prediction system for healthcare with Python. She has also done development of PLM software for Siemens in Prague.
She loves learning new technologies, development of distributed and cloud-based applications. In her free time she likes dancing, gym and workout, cycling and growing plants.

Eric is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect, he is passionate about performance and scalability. Eric’s role enables him to help customers adopt h2o within their enterprises.

After a successful experience in Marketing working for various software providers such as Aptean and Avolin, Eve-Anne is excited to join H2O.ai as EMEA Field Marketing Manager. In her previous roles, Eve-Anne was in charge of planning and running Marketing programs for different solutions of the companys’ portfolios and across several regions in order to generate leads, increase sales pipeline, build brand awareness and increase customer engagement. Eve-Anne is French, but was born and raised in Germany, she did part of her studies in Brussels and in London, which gave her a passion for multiculturality and foreign languages. She holds a bachelor’s degree in translation and a master’s in marketing, and was also recently certified in Project Management and Digital Marketing.

Eyal is joining us after his time at PerimeterX a web security company, where he was the VP of Client Services, Eyal managed Support, Customer Success, Professional Services and training. Previously, he was VP of Client Services and Customer Success at Aerohive. Prior to joining Aerohive, Eyal served as VP of Worldwide Technical Support at Proofpoint Inc., a security and compliance company. While at Proofpoint, he helped ready the company for an IPO, managed worldwide technical support, and built and launched premium enterprise support and training programs. Prior to joining Proofpoint, he served as Director of Services for LogLogic and held various positions at Postini, Inc. Eyal holds a bachelor’s in e-business from the University of Phoenix.

atih graduated from Boğaziçi University, Turkey in 2017 and obtained his BSc degree studying Industrial Engineering.

Prior to H2O, he worked in a startup and leveraged machine learning algorithms mostly for insurance related projects. He joined his first Kaggle competition on Sep,2017 and while improving his Data Science skills he also reached Competition Grand Master title on Oct,2019.

Besides Data Science and Kaggling, he loves traveling, shooting photos and videos, and also editing them.

Gabor Fodor is a data scientist and Kaggle Grandmaster (https://www.kaggle.com/gaborfodor) with a strong background in math and computer science. Gabor started kaggle nine years ago and he has been addicted since, his best global rank is 4th for competitions and 7th for notebooks.
During the last ten years he had a chance to work on data science problems in quite different industries (e.g. telecommunications, manufacturing, online marketing).
In his spare time he enjoys sports (soccer/running/squash), biking in the city and hiking/canoeing outdoors.

I’m from Baltimore, Maryland. I graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Journalism. I’ve been married for 28 years, have 3 children, 4 grandchildren and a 13 year old beagle. I have an incredible passion for teaching, developing and motivating sales professionals. I’ve been leading such teams for the past 25 years, and I’m Director of Business Development.

Greg is a data scientist with work experience that spans more than 20 projects, 15 brands, 5 industries and 5 countries and still counting! You could call him “the multi-tool” and please do, as he’s desperate for this nickname to catch on.

He studied Production Engineering and Management, he has a MSc in Operational Research from the University of Edinburgh and studied a bit of Cognitive Science. Recently he completed a self driving car nanodegree.

Greg also runs an amateur online Python course entitled “your 10 minutes of Python per day” and is happy to be able to call Scotland home. Due to an injury, this is the first time -since his toddler years- that Greg is not playing basketball. He’s channeling all this extra energy into his work projects. So beware!

Gregory helps H2O customers solve problems using both advanced data science and business experience. His career started on Wall Street as a software developer for a market data provider and in last 20+ years he led architecture and development of enterprise supply chain software suite, worked as principal integration engineer at FedEx, helped companies like American Airlines and Terminix jump start their web presence. Last 6 years Gregory spent at Teradata leading pre-sales data science on Aster and R. His package toaster was first open-source tool to integrate Aster and R and is hosted on CRAN.

Gregory holds MSc in Applied Math from the U. of Texas at Dallas, is a frequent traveler, avid tennis player, and amateur wine geek.

Guanshuo Xu is now a Data Scientist at H2O.ai. He is a Kaggle Competitions Grandmaster. In his Kaggle profile (https://www.kaggle.com/wowfattie), you can find more information about his current and past Kaggle competition achievements. Guanshuo also holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering focused on machine learning based image forensics and steganalysis. His methods for real-world image tampering detection and localization won the second place in the First IEEE Image Forensics Challenge. And his architectural design of deep neural networks outperformed traditional feature-based methods for the first time in image steganalysis.

Hannah is a Junior Technical Writer and received her B.A. in 2019 from the University of Detroit Mercy in English Literature and Psychology. She loves to get the docs just right.

When not working on the docs, she enjoys hanging with her cat, playing video games, and cooking for her friends on movies night.

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer from Sri Lanka. Prior to joining H2O.ai, I have worked in Sysco Labs which is the technology arm of a global food service company called Sysco based in the USA. I earned my B.Sc. Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. I’m interested in Cloud technologies & Process automation stuff while learning new things. I love to spend my leisure time with family members and friends, Go on trips with them and also I like to enjoy watching cricket matches and music.

Hiroyuki is a Sales Engineer with H2O. In his role, Hiroyuki works with customers and partners to solve AI/ML challenges and establish business impacting advanced analytics life cycle. 

Hiroyuki is based in Tokyo, Japan. Over 20 years, he has been working for enabling new technology in Japan business community. His focus and passion have always been in data driven decision making. He used to play Rugby Football, but not anymore.

Holly is an experienced Business Development representative who has been working in the enterprise SaaS space since graduating from Sussex university with a degree in International Relations. After an internship at a bespoke apps company, she's found her niche working for innovative platforms that want to grow their presence in the EMEA market.

Holly is the contracts administrator and corporate paralegal at H2O.  She made the leap to H2O (what law firm lawyers call “going in-house”) after spending most of her career working in large law firms assisting clients like H2O and wishing she was working for the client and not the law firm.  Thanks to H2O, it happened!

Being from Pittsburgh, PA, Holly passionately loves sports, especially her hometown teams.  Since moving to San Francisco, she has adopted the Oakland A’s because what is life without baseball (statement, not question).  Other likes:  cold weather, NYC, golfing, wine, all the animals, dessert first and random performances no one wants to see.  Dislikes:  Florida and herniated discs.

Jakub (or “Kuba” as we call him) completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Master’s Degree in Software Systems at Charles University in Prague. As a bachelor’s thesis, Kuba wrote a small platform for distributed computing of any types of tasks. During his master’s degree studies, he developed a cluster monitoring tool for JVM based languages which makes debugging and reasoning the performance of distributed systems easier using a concept called distributed stack traces. Kuba enjoys dealing with problems and learning new programming languages. At H2O.ai, Kuba works on Sparkling Water.

Aside from programming, Kuba enjoys exploring new cultures and bouldering. He’s also a big fan of tea preparation and the associated ceremony.

Jaroslav Keznikl is a Senior Software Engineer at H2O.ai with passion for building reliable cloud infrastructure and a determined advocate of SRE/DevOps principles.
Prior to H2O, he spent over 5 years as (Sr.) SWE/SRE at Google Cloud, building and operating cloud services at scale and promoting SRE/DevOps principles within the organization.
Jaroslav got his Ph.D. in Distributed Systems at the Charles University in Prague, focusing on dynamic, ad-hoc software architectures.
When not at work, he is a husband, father, and a big music fan.

Jeff Fohl is a UI Engineer at H2O. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, with over 20 years of experience in developing for the Web and other computing platforms, he brings together the worlds of art, design, and engineering. His work at H2O is focused on making machine learning more usable, intuitive, and natural.

Prior to joining H2O, Jeff split his time between building Single Page Applications for various clients, and participating in the community surrounding Numenta’s machine intelligence platform NuPIC, where he developed a passion for machine intelligence and open source software.

Jeff was also previously the Creative Director at GTxcel, where he helped design and build hundreds of magazine websites, as well as the content management system that powered them – Rivista.

He has also held leadership roles in the San Francisco non-profit art and design communities.

Jeff is responsible for Channel Sales in the Federal Market. He brings 25 years of Channel experience assisting partners in selling and implementing new technologies into the Federal Government.

Jeff is based outside of Washington, DC (Gaithersburg, MD). He earned his Bachelors in Business Administration and a Minor in Economics from Towson University. Jeff spends his spare time with his wife, 2 kids and coaching baseball.

Jesse Luebbert is a Customer Data Scientist at H2O.ai where he helps customers and prospects understand how H2O.ai capabilities can be applied to their business challenges to realize the full benefit and impact of their investment in AI.

Prior to joining H2O.ai, Jesse held R&D and customer facing roles at SAS Institute and was employed in the healthcare sector as a data scientist. He holds a BS in mathematics from Abilene Christian University and a MS in business analytics from Southern Methodist University.

I am passionate about design, UX and front-end technologies. My general goal is to learn how to make usable, memorable and beautiful apps. That is why I have been focusing on B2C projects from the front-end and analytics side for the past few years.

Also, I worked as a back-end engineer. That is why Python and DevOps technologies are close to my heart as well. Lately, I put them in use while playing around with the GPT models from OpenAI. This was also my first introduction to the world of AI, which I find exciting.

Hence, I am thrilled I can be part of H2O’s path toward new cutting-edge products.

Jo-fai (or Joe) has multiple roles (data scientist / evangelist / community manager) at H2O.ai. Since joining the company in 2016, Joe has delivered H2O talks/workshops in 40+ cities around Europe, US, and Asia. Nowadays, he is best known as the H2O #360Selfie guy. He is also the co-organiser of H2O's EMEA meetup groups including London Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning - one of the biggest data science communities in the world with more than 11,000 members.

Joe is the Director of Marketing Operations for H2O.ai. Prior to H2O, he worked as a Senior Program Manager at Amazon Web Services to administrate their marketing automation platform and cross-train internal users on how best to leverage existing marketing technologies for maximum customer benefit. In his free time, Joe plays and builds guitars and runs a weekly D&D game with friends and colleagues.

John is Technical Account Manager for, he is part of the Customer Success team at H2O focused on working with customers to ensure successful deployment of H2O solutions. Prior to joining H2O, he performed similar roles for enterprise software providers including  SAS and Oracle.

John is based in the UK and lives in Henley-on Thames, he is married with four children.

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Jorge Luis Hernandez Villapol, is a Software Engineer and Data Scientist at H2O. He comes from an Electronics Engineering background where the passion and excitement from the Mechatronics and Robotics field led him to AI and Intelligent Systems.

He has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UNT and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering from the Simon Bolivar University (USB) in Caracas, Venezuela.

Like many engineers, Jorge loves challenges and groundbreaking problems to solve. He also enjoys watching and traveling to sports events (F1, Soccer, Tennis) and the casual gaming sessions.

Joseph Granados is a Technical Support Engineer at H2O.ai.

He has degrees in Mathematics and Statistics from Sonoma State University, where an interest in machine learning led him to be involved with multiple machine learning research projects for the Computer Science department. He’s now focused on finding the best ways to design, train, and evaluate effective models.

In his spare time he enjoys watching and playing basketball.

Joslee joins as an Account Executive - North America reporting to Al Guddemi. Joslee will be responsible for driving revenue and establishing key client relationships across several strategic accounts. He is joining H2O.ai from Abacus.ai, a DLaaS software company where he ran the Sales - US East business. Before Abacus.ai, he worked as a Regional Sales Director at DataRobot from 2017 to 2020.

He resides in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters (ages 8 and 5). In his down time, Joslee enjoys spending time with his daughters, cycling, playing basketball and hiking. During quarantine, he has picked up the humbling sport of golf.

Justin will be assisting in leading the migration of our marketing website (H2O.ai) onto a newer web platform called Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). He is joining us from Digital On Six, a digital agency and Adobe Implementation Partner specializing in enterprise web development.

Justin has always lived in the Niagara Falls and Toronto area, as well as earning his HBSc in

Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Toronto. As passionate as he is about all things Toronto, including the sports teams, he has not forgotten his roots and will always identify as the “small town boy, living in the big city”. Whenever any free time, it’s usually spent exploring new areas of the city, travelling, concerts & live music, or sharpening his Mario Kart skills with friends.

Justin is a Software Engineer at H2O originally from the Bay Area. Justin earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego and his J.D. from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. His core proficiencies are in API and UI development and has interests in Machine Learning, Go, Rust, and Angular.

Kalana is from Aluthgama, a small town in Sri Lanka. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Science majoring in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. Prior to joining H2O, he was a Senior System Engineer at WSO2.

Kalana enjoys spending time with his family when and where possible, watching cricket, reading and watching psychology thrillers (And makes sure not to watch them at night!).

Kalhara is Licensing fulfilment and Sri Lanka Operations Manager at H2o.ai.His aim is to create a best-in-class Licensing function which is future-ready, embracing a new operating framework for license fulfilment and deploying licensing related processes. He will drive operational execution towards achieving these targets and strengthen Licensing fulfilment position as the go-to Licensing partner for all customers across the globe. He is also accountable for the Sri Lankan business operations as well...

He previously worked at MAS Holdings and in his 7-year tenure at MAS, He has held several Leadership positions across various disciplines from project manager, functional consultant to lead ERP/applications consultant.

During leisure time, he enjoys spending time with his family.

You can find him on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasun-kalhara/)

With a degree in Computer Science and Engineering, I started my engineering profession around 10yrs ago. I have been into Product development and customer engagement, involved in all the phases of the development.

Apart from work, I spend time playing chess(a recent addiction), reading (mostly non-fiction and tech) , writing (in my blog http://kannangce.in/ ) and watching movies (a lot).

I like to build and experiment with stuff, mostly with programming.

Karthik Kannappan is a data scientist and analytics engineer at H2o.ai, where he works with customers across different domains to bring the power of machine learning to improve business outcomes.

Prior to his life at H2o, he was a software engineer at Juniper networks, building machine learning models to determine whether software was malicious/not.

Karthik has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and fully credits UMass for getting him super interested in machine learning, statistics, genetic programming, software engineering and everything in-between.

Kerry O'Shea is Vice President of Customer Experience at H2O. Kerry has 20 plus years experience and success in sales, sales management and client relationship management. She is responsible for new business development at H2O. Prior to H2O, Kerry held key roles at Equifax, SAS, and Experian, where she supported major initiatives in predictive analytics. Kerry holds a BA in Political Science and a Master's Degree in international Relations, both, from St. John's University in New York City.

Kun-Hao is a software engineer with passion for data science and machine learning.
He started his professional careers as a software engineer in 5G modem. With the enthusiasm for machine learning, he started his Kaggle journey 3 years ago. Currently, he is a data scientist at H2O.ai and a Kaggle Grandmaster.
He holds a Master degree in Computer Science at National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan, with a focus on multi-armed bandit problems and reinforcement learning applied to computer games, including but not restricted to 2048 AI and computer Go AI. Kun-Hao's LinkedIn could be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkhyeh/ with more information about what he is working on now or past projects.

Laurène is a Data Scientist for the Professional Services department. She is joining H2O.ai from Scopely, a mobile gaming company where she was leading coordination between the analytics team and game producers, product managers and leadership team.

She is French and studied Math and Economics at Sorbonne University until she got her Master’s degree in Data Analysis. She is a big traveler who is very interested in social sciences and likes discovering different cultures, that’s why she lived in Scotland and now Spain!

Lena is a data science engineer, located in Prague. Her expertise lies in Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a focus on Information Extraction.

Prior to joining H2O Lena worked in MSD (Merck in US) as an NLP Capability Lead. She was the Customer Support Lead in the data management company Ataccama before that.

She holds a bachelor degree in Cognitive Science and Linguistics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a double master’s degree in Computational Linguistics from Groningen University and Charles University in Prague.

Liz has an eight year background as an executive assistant role.  Over the years, she has assisted numerous C-level and other senior executives and their teams in Sales, Professional Services, R&D, Marketing and Operations areas of business.  She thrives in the fast-paced technology world and brings her considerable energy and talent to see every task through to completion.  Her passion is making the professional lives of those teams she assists less complicated and worry-free.  Prior to her career as an EA, Liz was an operations manager of a Fine Dining Restaurant group in Baltimore.  She spends her free time with her husband, new son and 2 large furry rescue children- rehabbing their house, and traveling to sites on their bucket list.

I am a self-educated Pythonista with a degree in Electrical Engineering. I spent eight years in the the railway industry and after fully realizing my passion I switched tracks and started enjoying career as a software engineer.  I feel most comfortable in backend and operations.
In my free-time I am most passionate about video games and yoga.

Software developer and architect with 10+ years of experience. Loves new challenges and working with new technologies.

Before joining H2O.ai, he worked at Akamai as a team lead working on the automation frameworks. He was responsible to empower best automation practices in his department.

Loves gadgets. Always curious. He is a fan of clean and simple code. In free time, he designs and develops mobile apps and spends time with his wife and two sons.

Marco is an entrepreneur, presales data scientist, and cloud architect with 7+ years of software development background.

He is a business-oriented techie, passionate about solving problems using data science and enjoys architecting AI based solutions with a focus on business impact.

When not at work, he is a husband, father, and enjoys writing articles.

Marios Michailidis is a competitive data scientist at H2O.ai and a Kaggle Grandmaster (ex World #1 out of 500,000 members) . He holds a Bsc in accounting Finance from the University of Macedonia in Greece and an Msc in Risk Management from the University of Southampton. He has obtained  his PhD in machine learning at University College London (UCL) with a focus on ensemble modelling. He has worked in both marketing and credit sectors in the UK Market and has led many analytics’ projects with various themes including: Acquisition, Retention, Recommenders, Uplift, fraud detection, portfolio optimisation and more. He is the creator of KazAnova, a project made in Java for quick credit scoring  as well as is the creator of StackNet Meta-Modelling Framework.  Marios’ LinkedIn profile can be found here with more information about what he is working on now or past projects.

Mark Bakker is a Senior Solutions Engineer and a strong believer in AI, provided it is implemented responsibly. The past 10 years Mark advised organizations over the world how to start AI innovations and how to bring them to production in the role of analyst, presales consultant and program lead.

Mark Landry is a competition data scientist and product manager at H2O.ai and Kaggle Grandmaster, ranked as high as 33rd. Mark joined H2O.ai in 2015 and has provided data science support on several H2O.ai products as well as led the data science behind the award-winning applications in collaboration with PwC. Mark's prior experience includes data science, business intelligence, and data warehousing roles within health care, hospitality, and manufacturing companies.

Martin is passionate software engineer and RESTafarian who enjoys reading and writing the code in various (sometimes obscure) programming languages.

He holds M.S. degree in Computer Science from Charles University in Prague with specializations in compiler construction, operating systems and AI/ML. Martin devoted most of his career to the enterprise software architecture and development.

Martin likes to spend his free time with his family or by riding road bike in early mornings.

Software engineer that hates repetitive tasks, praises automation, clean code and "right tool for the job" rule. Also a big javascript ecosystem fan.

In my free time, I teach ballroom dancing at both competitive and social level (as a former ballroom dancer).

Matt is the main author of the data.table package in R. He has worked for some of the world’s largest financial organizations: Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, Concordia Advisors and Winton Capital. He is particularly pleased that data.table is also used outside Finance, for example Genomics where large and ordered datasets are also researched.

Matt has been programming in S/R for 15 years, knows C pretty well and holds a first class BSc in Applied Maths and Computing from Warwick University, U.K.

Matus is joining Customer Engineer role, coming from EmbedIT where he started as Infrastructure engineer and later worked as an automation engineer for Hadoop ecosystem. Majority of work consisted of writing ansible plabooks and helping end users to resolve their problems on Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop.

He is located in Brno (Czech Republic) and earned his Bachelors degree in Project Management at School of Musical Arts in Bratislava ( accredited with University of Economics in Bratislava ). In my free time I’m riding scooter bike, bike, wondering around mountains, forests and taking care about my kids.

Maximilian is a Data Scientist at H2O. Previously, he co-founded khumbu.ai, where he implemented machine and deep learning solutions in various fields, ranging from semantic document clustering to automated vaccine discovery.

Maximilian holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from LMU Munich, where he focused on the
statistical description of quantum many-body systems.
In his spare time, Max likes to surf the river wave in Munich.

Michael is Senior Director Data Science, Customer Success at H2O.ai. He has several years of experience in developing and applying analytics and machine learning solutions for use cases in business development and strategy, marketing and customer relationships. Prior to H2o.ai, Michael worked in healthcare and in consulting, managed international projects and teams providing transformation strategies, corporate consulting and training as well as data science and analytics solutions for the global fortune 100 companies in Europe, Asia, and the USA.

Michael holds a Ph.D. in Economics and was researcher and lecturer at universities in Germany, Australia and Singapore.

Michal is a software engineer with a passion for crafting code in Java and other JVM languages.

He started his professional career as a J2EE developer and spent his time building all sorts of web and desktop applications. Four years ago he truly found himself when he entered the world of big data processing and Hadoop. Since then he enjoys working with distributed platforms and implementing scalable applications on top of them.

He holds a Master of Computer Science form Charles University in Prague. His field of study was Discrete Models and Algorithms with focus on Optimization.

Michal is a geek, developer, Java, Linux, programming languages enthusiast developing software for over 10 years.

He obtained PhD from the Charles University in Prague in 2012 and post-doc at Purdue University.

During his studies he was interested in construction of not only distributed but also embedded and real-time component-based systems using model-driven methods and domain-specific languages. He participated in design and development of various systems including SOFA and Fractal component systems or jPapabench control system.

Michelle is a Customer Solutions Engineer & Data Scientist for H2O.ai. Prior to H2O she worked as a Senior Data Science Consultant for Teradata, focused on leading analytics projects to solve cross-industry business problems.

Her background is in pure math and computer science and she is passionate about applying these skills to answer real world questions.

When not coding or thinking of analytics, Michelle can be found hanging out with her dog or playing ukulele.

I have been a front-end engineer for 10+ years so far. Before I started my career as a front-end engineer, I was an architect and a full-stack engineer for many years. I like Jazz, Hip-hop, R&B music, snowboarding and travelling.

As a fully bilingual software engineer, Mohamed's professional experience spans a broad range of computing science and development activities. Mohamed has performed software application development, software testing, and even research in machine interactions designing voice recognition technologies. Some of his past responsibilities have included academic research in machine learning and lead developer. His most recent engagements have touched on a gamut of image processing for defense technologies and natural language processing models for Governance issues & Risk identification. Other of his notable works include his engagements in the context of unsupervised and semi-supervised data segmentation pipelines for predictive models, and big data analysis. Mohamed was born in Nairobi, Kenya, grew up and completed his secondary education in Casablanca, Morocco, and moved to Ottawa, Canada in 2013 where he completed his bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Ottawa.

Navdeep is a Lead Data Scientist & Responsible AI Team Lead at H2O.ai where he leads a team of researchers and engineers working on various facets of Responsible AI. He also leads science and product efforts around explainable AI, ethical AI, model debugging, and security of machine learning. Navdeep previously focused on GPU accelerated machine learning, automated machine learning, and the core H2O-3 platform at H2O.ai.

Prior to joining H2O.ai, Navdeep worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Cisco and as a Data Scientist at FICO. Before that Navdeep was a research assistant in several neuroscience labs at the following institutions: California State University, East Bay, Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, and University of California, Berkeley.

Navdeep graduated from California State University, East Bay with a M.S. in statistics with an emphasis on computational statistics, a B.S. in statistics, and a B.A. in psychology with a minor in mathematics.

Nayananga completed his B.Sc (Honors) in Computer Science degree at the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He completed GSoC 19, 20 with The Apache Software Foundation. Nayananga worked as a research engineering intern at WSO2. He loves to solve problems, contribute to opensource and learn new technologies. During his fun time, he likes to go cycling, watch youtube or travel.

Neema is a Data Scientist at H2O. He has a PhD in chemical engineering from Northwestern University. Prior to joining H2O, Neema worked at Intel for 7 years. He has data mining experience in oil & gas, semiconductors, manufacturing, sales, and marketing (brand, retail, social media).

In his spare time, Neema enjoys traveling, hiking, and cooking

Nidhi is a Hacker at H2O. She has a background in Physics. Nidhi is an avid H2O and R user with a keen interest in large scale data analysis and machine learning algorithms.

Nikhil is a Machine Learning Engineer at H2O.ai. He is currently working on our automatic machine learning platform, Driverless AI. He graduated from University of Buffalo majoring in Artificial Intelligence and is interested in developing scalable machine learning algorithms.

Prior to joining the Master’s course, he has worked for over 4 years for companies like Impetus technologies, Cognizant – Center of Excellence, on Big data technologies like Apache Spark, Hadoop, Map-reduce, HBase, Hive, Solr to name a few.

In his spare time, Nikhil enjoys travelling, exploring places and driving.

Niki Athanasiadou, MRes, PhD is a data scientist specializing in biomedical applications. Dr Athanasiadou has a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Edinburgh (UK) and experience innovating and building solutions in the areas of personalized medicine, clinical decision support, and population health. Her past experience includes National Institutes of Health, the NYU School of Medicine and the NYU Center for Systems Biology and Currant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Her work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and has been included in academic textbooks. Dr Athanasiadou has received numerous awards, including UK Young Biochemist by the British Biochemical Society, the Open Data data-science award by the NYC Office of the Mayor, and two Best Paper awards.

Olivier graduated from Supelec, France and holds a PhD in Signal Processing. He worked in the Airline IT business at Amadeus as a C/C++ developer then joined the London branch as a team leader. In Capgemini, he worked with clients in the public sector as a senior project manager.
Olivier then moved to trading the commodity markets, building and  backtesting trading systems, and progressively started using more  machine learning tools. His data science journey really began on Kaggle  where he could practice and improve his skills on various competitions and datasets.
In the last year, he worked for caring.com using machine learning and data mining to help families find communities for their parents.
Olivier loves spending his spare time in the yard where he grows organic apples, peers, grapes and strawberries. He also produces his own special jam.

He's really excited about joining H2O as a senior data scientist.

Ondrej studied Computer Science at Czech Technical University in Prague and is currently finishing his Master's in System Programming. For his thesis, he worked on processing and visualizing space radiation data from ESA's satellite in Low Earth Orbit. Ondrej's number one tool is Go, but he enjoys working with other compiled languages as well. At H2O.ai, Ondrej works on Enterprise Steam and other projects.

In his spare time, Ondrej likes traveling, videography and sports like cycling, skiing or running.

Ophir worked at Bank Leumi, the biggest bank in Israel, for ten years. In Bank Leumi, he led the AWS public cloud team and the K8s infrastructure.

In his free time, he likes to take trips with his wife and daughter across the country. He also likes to travel to new countries and explore new places (before covid-19).

Patrick is a recent graduate of Computer Science from Boise State University. He first started working with machine learning within the defense world. After realizing there would be more room for him to grow in the business sector he joined on to the development team at H2O. He currently assists as a quality engineer for Steam. He has a desire to grow the computing world by being a contributor to the open source community.

Philip has over 8 years of experience in financial services having worked in various Lead Data Science and Quant roles across Macquarie Bank in Australia. Most recently leading the deployment of advanced ML focusing on unstructured data and Natural language processing across the retail bank.

Philip is based in the eastern beaches of Sydney and holds a Masters of Data Science and a bachelor of Science (Mathematics) both from Sydney University. When not hard at work he enjoys going surfing, fishing or swimming.

Philipp has won several Kaggle competitions and is as of this writing ranked 4th on the global competition leaderboard. Philipp obtained a Ph.D. in computer science with honors at the Technical University of Graz where he also finished his Master's studies in Software Development and Business Management. During his Ph.D. and following post-doc, he has published papers in seminal data science conferences and journals including the best paper award at The Web Conference.

Philipp loves utilizing his passion and skills in machine learning, statistics, and data science in order to enable data-driven decision making and he is always eager to delve into new bleeding-edge fields and technologies. In his time off, he likes to do sports like playing football or going to the gym, as well as play video games or watch the newest tv shows.

Prithvi is Chief of Technology, Applications at H2O.ai. Prithvi leads the design and development of "Q", H2O.ai's high scale exploratory data analysis and analytical application development platform.

Prithvi has been with H2O.ai since its early days and has been responsible for several products including Driverless AI (our flagship automatic machine learning platform), Steam (distributed cluster management, model management and deployment for H2O), H2O.js (Javascript transpiler for H2O's distributed runtime), Play (on-demand cloud provisioning system for H2O), Flow (a hybrid GUI/REPL/Notebook for H2O) and Lightning (statistical graphics for H2O).

In the past, Prithvi was an early engineer at Platfora, where he was responsible for the high performance interactive data visualization engine. Before that, he founded Plot.io, a browser-based visual analytics environment (acquired by Platfora).

I have worked as a backend engineer for 10+ years and enjoyed building some very complex large scale systems in banking and retail domain. Have experience in solutionizing hard business problems and driving efforts through all phases of project development lifecycle. I enjoy solving problems and love to travel.

Rafael Coss is a Community and Partner Maker at H2O.ai. Prior to joining H2O.ai, he was technical marketing and community Director and a developer advocate at Hortonworks. He was also the DataWorks Summit Program Co-Chair for the past 3 years. Prior to Hortonworks he was a Senior Solution Architect and Manager of IBM’s WW Big Data Enablement team. At IBM he was responsible for the technical product enablement for BigInsights and Streams. Previously, he held several other positions in IBM, where he worked on tools, XML db, federated db and Object-Relational db.

Raman Kapur brings over 20 years of experience in the areas of corporate finance, investor relations, treasury, financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. He leads the company’s global finance function as well as work with the leadership team to enhance the overall business strategy.

Kapur was previously CFO at AIOps company, Moogsoft. Prior to Moogsoft, he was VP of Finance at Splunk, where he was a key member of the finance team that helped prepare the company to go public and scale its business model. Before that he has held finance roles at Yahoo, Intuit and started his career at Citi.

I am a seasoned Inside Sales Professional with over 10 years of experience. Previously, I worked with various leading technology companies such as Microsoft, Google and Cisco in Singapore.

I live in Singapore and I have two children, Neha and Nitin. My husband is a University Professor.

In my free time, I love to cook and go shopping.

I am very excited to start this new journey with H20.ai.

Read Maloney is the SVP of Marketing, leading H2O.ai’s efforts to build awareness and grow the business.  Read brings a digital first and customer obsessed approach to marketing.

Read is a combat veteran, serving as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps.  He possesses a background in advanced statistical analysis, due to his time working as a Data Analyst at Honeywell, and 10 years in marketing leadership roles at cloud computing businesses.  He joined AWS in 2010 as a Product Marketer and later built their digital marketing team.  At Oracle, Read led the North American marketing team for their growing cloud business, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.  Read also led Oracle’s Product Marketing team for Cloud Data Warehousing and Data Science.  He holds a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Foster School of Business (University of Washington).

Robert will be responsible for sales in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is joining H2O.ai from

Snowflake where he lead a team responsible for Major Accounts in the Bay Area and Arizona.

Robert grew up in Los Gatos, CA and earned a bachelors degree in Economics and Mathematics from UC Santa Barbara. After graduating college he returned to the Bay Area and met his wife of 25 years, Alex, where they raised 3 children. Robert has been in sales leadership roles at a number of companies in the Bay Area such as NVIDIA, NetApp, EMC and Snowflake. In his free time he likes to spend time outdoors mountain biking, hiking with his dogs or camping. He is also a big fan of Bay Area sports – go Giants and Niners!

Rod serves as Senior Vice President of Global Business Development and is responsible for managing H2O.ai’s strategic partners worldwide. Rod is an open-source veteran having spent many years running global business development at Couchbase and Redis. He is fortunate to have experienced several successful IPO’s and company acquisitions throughout his career. Rod lives with his family in Bellevue WA.

I'm a Machine Learning Engineer and Kaggle Quadruple Grandmaster with over 7 years of experience building data science products in various industries and projects like digital payments, e-commerce retail, credit risk, fraud prevention, growth, logistics, and more. I enjoy working on competitions, hackathons and collaborating with folks around the globe on building solutions.

I completed my post-graduation in Applied Statistics from IIT-Bombay in 2013.

Solving sudokus and puzzles have been my big hobby for over a decade. Having won the national championship multiple times, I've represented India and been in the top-10 in the World, as well as have won a silver medal at the Asian Championships.

My dream is to make 'Person of Interest' a reality.

You can find me on LinkedIn and follow me on Twitter.

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Based in Atlanta, GA

MBA & CIS degree from Georgia State University

Background in open source, application development, integration & messaging

Sajith Ariyarathna is a Lead Software Engineer at H2O.ai. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree from the University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Maker at heart, Sajith likes to design and build software platforms. He enjoys travelling and spending time with the family.

Sam Kakizaki is the sales manager for H2O Japan. He has experience selling big data related tools at companies such as IBM, Oracle, Splunk and Databricks.

He has practiced as a sushi chef and enjoys serving good sushi at parties with his family and friends.

I am all for understanding the user, being empathetic and providing solutions for their problems, pain points and creating functional implementations of product UIs, keeping my hands off static mock-ups, then translating it into a working and interactive experience. I have more than 10 years of experience in User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Designing.

"Just because something looks good doesn't mean it's useful or workable, and just because something is useful doesn't make it beautiful. Because a picture is worth a thousand words and an interface is worth a thousand pictures". My goal is to simply live by those words.

Sarah is responsible for our people engagement strategies and communication as we continue to grow globally. She is joining H2O.ai from MATRIXX Software where she was involved in company engagement initiatives, communications, operations, and the culture committee. 

She is local to San Jose, CA and earned her B.S. in Business Management from San Jose State University (Go Spartans!). In her down time, Sarah enjoys being active doing yoga, calisthenics, golf, and tennis. During quarantine, she has picked up epoxy resin art to explore her artistic side.

I'm working as a User Experience Designer at H2O.ai. At H2O.ai I'm focused on applying human-centered design practices to various products, implement design thinking practices, and improved experiences. I Graduated from Edith Cowan University Western Australia. I'm an admirer of nature and most of my spare time I spend time hiking, camping and also I'm a wildlife photographer.

Shihan Malik is from Sri Lanka starting to work as a Senior UX engineer. Shihan is joining H2O from Cloud solution International where he worked to provide solutions for healthcare system. He initiated a ‘talk with a designer’ ux tribe youtube series in CSI.

Shihan has a Bachelor in science from University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ). He is passionate in ux design, graphic design, video editing and during free time loves to play fifa (Esports) and to write articles.

Working as a senior UX designer at H2O.ai. Passionate about creating seamless user experience and provide user centered design for applications. In free time would like to travel around, play FIFA  and watch tv shows.

Snigdha joined H20.ai on 28th June, and prior to her joining she led Cognizant’s AI & Analytics Life Sciences business development team across North America, Europe & APAC. She has driven multi-million transformational digital deals for Cognizant while simultaneously authoring and program managing POV’s, Thought Leadership, Industry Primers, Dossiers, Playbooks and Marketing Collaterals.

She is based out of Bangalore, India, and has earned her Masters in Pharmaceutical Marketing Management. At H20.ai. she would be responsible for driving and supporting business growth strategies across geographies for the Healthcare business while supporting India sales as well. Snigdha enjoys listening to music, gardening, watching documentaries and cooking.

Soren Nielsen is Director, Sales for Northern Europe based in Copenhagen. With more than 20 years of experience in the analytical software space, Soren is helping customers in all verticals getting maximum value from their data through analytics.

Sri Ambati is the CEO and Founder of H2O.ai where he has launched a growing movement to democratize AI for everyone. Sri is regularly consulted by business leaders to help develop strategies to help them embark on an AI transformation. He has successfully combined his strong vision to “Make Your Company an AI Company” with impressive technical credentials to help organizations in all industries – from finance to healthcare to retail and manufacturing – maximize the impact of their data on business results, and improve day-to-day life for people around the world.

Sri was recently featured in an article by IDG Connect where he discussed his vision for ubiquitous AI. He has also been featured on CNBC and the WSJ discussing his AI vision, and was named a Datanami Top People to Watch in 2019.  He is a regular speaker at AI, machine learning and big data conferences such as AI4Finance, Big Data LDN and H2O World.

Prior to founding H2O.ai, Sri co-founded big data analytics startup Platfora (acquired by Workday), and held technical and executive roles at Datastax, Azul Systems and RightOrder. His academic career includes sabbaticals focused on theoretical neuroscience at Stanford and UC Berkeley.  He holds an M.S. in math and computer science from the University of Memphis.

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Stefan Pacinda is a solution architect at H2O.ai. Located in Prague, Czech Republic, he is responsible for making sure H2O.ai prospects and customers adopt Machine Learning solutions and implement them within their IT infrastructure - both on premise or in the cloud. Prior to joining H2O.ai, he was working at Hewlett Packard, HPE, and Microfocus in the engineering team to build Service Virtualization.

I am responsible for leading the team that is creating sales excellence across all our sales roles, from a world class onboarding journey, to role based training and enablement programs designed to deliver expertise across the key competencies required to deliver sales performance results in alignment with our corporate goals.  This also includes ownership and responsibility for the H2O value selling methodology, how it is used to accelerate pipeline generation, prosecute opportunities, and close deals efficiently, while delivering value to both the customer and to the company.

Sudalai Rajkumar (aka SRK) is a Data Scientist at H2O.ai Inc, building Driverless AI, an automated machine learning platform. Prior to this, he was with Freshworks, Tiger Analytics and Global Analytics. He has solved a lot of interesting data science problems for various customers across the globe in multiple domains including finance, e-commerce, online advertising, health care, transportation, retail. He has worked on varied problems ranging from doing simple analysis on structured data to natural language processing and voice analytics in his career.

Susankha is a senior software engineer at H2O. He graduated from University of Colombo School of Computing with a BSc in Computer Science.

In his spare time, Susankha enjoys traveling, photography, watching and playing cricket.

Tara has 15+ years of growth marketing experience with global SaaS companies. Her passion is around helping customers succeed with technologies that solve complex business challenges and then working to bring their stories to life through experiential marketing programs. Her background includes corporate event design, account-based marketing, integrated campaign development and sales enablement. She’s looking forward to planning the next H2O World customer conference and working with H2O customers around the globe.

Thomas is joining H2O.ai from Amazon Web Services where he led product management on the AI Research and Education team among other roles.

He hails from North Carolina and earned his B.A. in International Studies (Asian Studies) from the University of Washington (Seattle). In his down time, Thomas enjoys spending time with his wife and three children Rufus (14), George (3) and Frances (1), and playing, watching, reading and (honestly) obsessing over rugby.

Timothy has been working as a data science and machine learning presales with 6+ years of experience across Asia;

Born in Macau (Not a gambler) and earned B.B.A cert in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hiker here). Despite the business focus, he enjoys a lot in DSML courses and follows the professor conducting data mining projects before joining IBM. After several years on Watson everything, he took the challenge joining Alteryx APAC as a 5 people team and had a blast there. In several partnerships, he’s Impressed by the H2O stack and decided to challenge himself once again.

Currently based in Singapore and picking up wakeboarding, tennis and boardgame as there is no mountain here!

Tom is VP of Customer and Pre-Sales Engineering at H2O & key to the magic of engineering & customer happiness.

A quintessential team member – Tom is an extraordinary blend of technical genius, customer focus and management by example.

Before joining H2O, Tom was Co-founder & CTO at Luminix, where he and the team developed a cutting-edge offline mobile application for Salesforce users. This involved a healthy blend of focusing on the user-experience along with a deep-dive in various technologies.

Prior to Luminix, Tom was a Principal Engineer at Azul Systems, where he worked in both the JVM and System Software teams. Tom served as the technical leader for the distributed management application team, appliance security and tools for distributed debugging.

Tom’s experience at systems and chip startup companies involved straddling the hardware-software boundary.

Tom led pre-silicon verification infrastructure development for a terabit networking switch fabric chipset at Abrizio (acquired by PMC-Sierra). He also developed architectural CPU simulators, debuggers and toolchains at Chromatic Research (acquired by ATI). Tom got his start in technology at Intel, spending internships and co-ops in both the Portland (MD6) and Santa Clara (MD7) microprocessor design groups.

A lesser-known fact about Tom: Finding the now-famous Pentium floating-point divide (FDIV) bug while at Intel using the testing harness and methodology he developed (several months before it was independently discovered outside Intel, and subsequently gained worldwide attention).

Tom has an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign), and a BSE degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan (at Ann Arbor).

IBM Systems Sales specialist for enterprise

IBM Systems Product Line Manager

IBM Systems Cognitive infrastructure sales manager

H2O.ai Korea business setting up

Tomáš is a curious software engineer with strong background in machine learning and data science.

For his bachelor’s he studied computer science at Czech

Technical University. His bachelor’s thesis was about neuro-evolution algorithms, which convinced him to specialise in knowledge engineering for his master’s degree. The topic of his master’s thesis dealt with scalability of ensemble models and their anytime performance.

After graduation he worked as a data scientist in B2B pricing company and as a data scientist, ML engineer and team leader in an industrial AI startup.

He likes to spend his free time with his family and his Aussie shepherd Pixel. When he is not reading ML related papers, he is probably reading about abstract algebra, category theory, functional programming, and cooking.

Tomas holds a master degree in software engineering.

During his studies, he spent four years creating software which helps in leukemia research. After graduation, before joining H2O, he worked for a year and a half as a backend engineer on a cloud-based architecture CRM project for the German clients. Outside work his biggest passion is skiing, racquet sports, and strategy games.

Veronika is Software Engineer. She likes everything about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

She finished master studies at Czech Technical University in Prague in 2017. Within master thesis, she cooperated with the Police of the Czech Republic. The goal was to prepare and analyze Czech crime data and build a predictive model. During studies at CTU, she had a part-time job in Ataccama software company as a Java Software Engineer. After she finished her studies, she had worked as a Machine Learning Engineer in Czech startup SEQENGI for nearly a year.

In her spare time, she plays frisbee, travels, hikes, plays the ukulele, learns how to cook or bake something new, enjoys gardening and a much more.'

Vijitha is a Senior Engineer at H2O.ai who possess excellent skills in various areas starting from programming, troubleshooting, customer handling to team management. In the past he worked Ballerina team at WSO2, which is responsible in developing the Ballerina Language; A programming language specifically designed and developed for network and cloud operations.

He enjoys playing hockey, traveling with family and friends and watching movies in his spare time.

Vishal Sharma is a senior data scientist at H2O.ai. 

Prior to H2O.ai, Vishal worked in different domains such as finance, smart city and patent analytics. He has lead teams of data scientists and machine learning researchers delivering end-end solutions for lead generation, analytics based corporate lending, machine translation, weather forecasting, regime detection for trading etc. 

Vishal has a PhD from National University of Singapore in neural networks and time series. His areas of interest include time series and nlp.

Wendy is a hacker at H2O.ai devising solutions to making systems smarter. Prior to working at H2O.ai, she was building intelligent applications on mobile devices to recognize user activities from sensor data and predict user app usage from user logs at Lab126. At Intel Labs and Aperto Networks, she was a system engineer/architect designing wireless communication systems for WiFi and cellular networks.

Wendy obtained her bachelor in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a master and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell. She loves machine learning, swarm intelligence, mathematics and wireless communication systems. She enjoys being involved with all phases of the product development cycle; requirements analysis (what are we building and how well does it need to perform), architecture/algorithm design, performance analysis and simulation, prototyping/implementation, integration, test, and verification. Her diverse interests and skills are reflected in her patents.

In her spare time, Wendy loves learning new things, being active, reading, and scuba diving. She loves the ocean and wishes she could be an amphibian someday.

I hold a Master’s Degree in Applied Data Analysis and has over 4 years of working experience in Data Science. I worked in Banking, Gaming and eCommerce domains. I’m also the first Kaggle competitions Grandmaster in Belarus having gold medals in both classic Machine Learning and Deep Learning competitions.

Data Scientist having more than 10 years practical experiences.

Prior to joining H2O.ai, as a Data Scientist, Yuki was responsible for consulting, project management, and leadership roles in SAS Institute.
Working in various positions and companies, including software, consulting and financial industries, he has experienced various challenging projects in which both technical and business skills are required.

Yuki obtained his masters degree in Statistics from Georgia Institute of Technology and bachelors in Mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles.

Zain is the Junior Technical Writer at H2O. He graduated from Northern Illinois University in 2019 with a B.A. in English.

Zain has a strong passion for writing, technology, and learning—his other interests include film, literature, stand-up comedy, and astronomy.