Sync Computing

Jeff Chou

Co-Founder, CEO

Jeff received his PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley as an NDSEG fellow, was a Batelle Post-Doctoral Scholar at MIT, and is an Entrepreneurial Research Fellow at Activate.  Prior to Sync, he was a technical staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Sean Gorsky

Head of Data Science

Sean received his B.S. from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2013 and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2020 from Boston University. Prior to joining Sync Computing, he was an Associate Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Kartik Nagappa

Head of Product

Kartik is a husband, father (dog dad), and motorcycle enthusiast. He vaguely recalls writing a thesis on polyphase recursive all-pass filters for his masters in digital signal processing. Since then he has switched gears and worked at several companies (Microsoft, Netflix) and startups specializing as a product generalist.

Brandon Kaplan

Staff Data Engineer

Brandon has 10+ years of experience building data architecture and pipelines in the healthcare and real estate industries. He strives to enable data-driven decision making throughout organizations. Brandon received his B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Cayman Williams

Jr. Data Scientist

Cayman recently received his B.S. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from BYU. He is excited by finding meaning in data and using his quantitative background to explore data-driven solutions to real-world problems.

Courtney Myers

Operations Manager

Courtney is an experienced Operations and Recruiting professional with 9+ years working with a variety of clients and industries. She is skilled at creating and implementing best practices company-wide and is focused on building out a safe, enjoyable and productive work environment here at Sync.

Pete Tamisin

Head of Customer Solutions

Pete has over 20+ of experience working on and with enterprise data teams across numerous verticals, including telecom, utilities, fintech, and biotech. He has held positions at Motorola, Siemens, and most recently Databricks, where he spent 5 years as a Technical Lead for their Customer Success team.

Brian Flannery

Sr. Fullstack Engineer

Brian has 6+ years of experience as a Full Stack Engineer working for startups. He enjoys continuously learning about software engineering, new technologies, and challenges across the stack.

Steve Vorhees

Staff Software Engineer

Steve has been passionately developing web applications since Netscape! He specializes in high-throughput, scalable, Cloud applications . Prior to Sync, Steve was an Engineering Lead at New Relic and Jive Software.

Sahil Singhal

Head of Engineering

Sahil has 7+ years in the software engineering industry specializing in Cloud Computing. He attended Northeastern University where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and Biology.

Wenbo Wang

Product Designer

Wenbo has 15+ years of product design experience, with expertise in Data, AI and Dev Tools. He has held positions in Databricks, Cloudera, Oracle and SAP. He was the 0-1 designer for Databricks SQL which achieved $100+ MM ARR in <2 years. He is passionate about finding the perfect balance among business, technology and users.

Charlie Deignan

Enterprise Account Executive

Charlie is an experienced Account Executive who brings a wealth of experience in building strong client relationships. He brings a dynamic approach with his background at MongoDB and data-driven organizations.

Elizabeth Heinlein

Sr. Member of Technical Staff

Elizabeth has over a decade of experience in software engineering, along with a masters degree in Computer Science from Portland State University. She lives in Portland with her husband and two dogs, where you can find her running, cross stitching, and geeking out about software design.

Adi Jaishankar

Staff Data Scientist

Adi received his Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, where he researched materials that arrange their molecules in fractal patterns. Prior to joining Sync, he designed and deployed Machine Learning algorithms for The New York Times, spanning subscriber growth, Marketing and Large Language Model applications for the newsroom.

Taylor Gaw

Senior Technical Staff

Taylor has 8+ years of experience in software engineering specializing in building data-intensive applications. He currently lives in Denver with his wife and dog, and outside of work you can find him trail running, fly fishing or snowboarding in the Rockies.

Romain Briot

Sr. Technical Staff

Romain graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology in 2013. He has over a decade of experience as a software engineer, with industry knowledge ranging from embedded software development and networking to a focus on saas/cloud at startups within the past five years. You can find him in Colorado walking his dog, Java, and eating all the foods.

Vinoo Ganesh

Head Architect

Vinoo has had 10+ years of experience in the data platform + AI space. He has build platforms and lead teams across Palantir, Veraset, and Citadel with a focus on distributed systems and machine learning.

McKinley Culbert

Product Marketing Manager

Hailing from South Texas, McKinley is a seasoned marketing leader with over 9 years of experience in driving the success of B2B SaaS product marketing programs within cloud solutions, DevOps, data infrastructure, and security.When she’s not working, you can find her diving into her sommelier studies or catching a flight to a new destination.

Jason Baer

Sr. Solutions Engineer

Jason has over 20 years of consulting expertise, guiding clients across diverse sectors such as retail, higher education, healthcare, and finance to decipher their data effectively. Before joining Sync, he served enterprise customers for four years as a member of the Databricks’ Customer Success team.

John Purcell

With over 20 years of experience leading business, technology, and product strategy for enterprise SaaS companies, John has built a successful career assembling and scaling great teams to solve hard problems for companies and their customers. He is currently Chief Product Officer at DoiT International, Google’s leading and fastest growing cloud partner.

Amy Villeneuve

Amy Villeneuve is a tech executive and startup advisor with a track record of successfully growing and scaling businesses. As COO of Kiva Systems and later VP of Amazon, she put the team and mechanisms in place for the transition into the powerhouse that is now Amazon Robotics. With  over 30 years of experience Amy leverages her deep and broad knowledge spanning strategy to operations to mentor technology startups toward successful outcomes.

Sync Computing

Rebecca Li

Advisor

Rebecca leads product strategy and GTM initiatives at Weights & Biases; previously led the product GTM strategy at Databricks. Product enthusiast, devoted in building tools that make people more productive and joyful in doing their work.

Suraj Bramhavar

Co-Founder, Technical Advisor

Suraj held research positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Intel Labs, where his research focused on integrated photonics for next generation computing systems. He received his B.S, M.S, and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and is an Entrepreneurial Research Fellow at Activate.

Ron Avnur

Advisor

Ron has developed teams, products, and businesses over the past 20 years, holding product and engineering leadership positions at Google, MongoDB, Dremio, and MarkLogic. He leverages his learnings to help new ventures thrive.