Personal info in a nutshell
I’m a physicist, engineering exec, investor. Here’s my story:
- Born and raised in NCR, India. Delhi native, I live in SF.
- Got hooked on science early, did my B.Tech in EE from IIT, PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech.
- Learned business by working at startups for 10+ years and getting MBA at Wharton.
- I founded a bootstrapped company to help data teams optimize their Snowflake spend.
- I enjoy building stuff for internet and physical systems using data and AI games.
Some things I’ve done
- Built AI systems that crunch petabytes of data across image, text, and tabular formats.
- Scaled these systems to serve millions of customers simultaneously 1, 2.
- Created systems that use neural networks to analyze satellite imagery at planet scale.
- Led teams of 120+ brilliant minds in data science, engineering, and analytics.
Tech I love working with:
- PyTorch, Hugging Face
- GCP, Snowflake, Bigquery
- Anything that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with data
Investing:
- My current areas of interest are: AI, infrastructure, open source, physical systems / frontier tech.
- Some companies I have invested in - Comet, Startree, Inference, Nimble, Turnstile, Dandelion…
- I am a founding member and part of the steering committee at Invest in Data where I co-invest with a group of ~50 other Data execs.
- We vet and invest on a quarterly cadence. If you have an exciting AI project or a game-changing startup idea? Let’s talk: shwetank.kumar@gmail.com.