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

Staff Product Manager

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.

Scott Romney

Staff Software Engineer

Scott has 10+ years of experience developing web services for community and fintech applications. He is passionate about clean and robust stacks that supercharge deployment and foster collaboration across teams.

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.

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.

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.

Graham Seyffert

Staff Software Engineer

Graham received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. Since then, he has worked on building robust & performant web services at scale at companies like Apple and Capital One.

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.

Jason Turner

Principal DevSecOps Engineer

10 years of experience leading DevSecOps teams across multiple software verticals. Attended Oregon State University graduating with a B.S. in Management Information Systems.

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.

Wesley Chaney

Staff Data Scientist

Wes was previously a software engineer and scientist at startups ranging from computer vision and robotics to cloud compute optimization. He received his PhD in Vision Science from UC Berkeley, while also earning an MA in Statistics.

Stewart Bryson

Head of Developer Relations

Stewart has 20+ years managing large data platform implementations, including his time founding, scaling and selling Red Pill Analytics, a services company. He is an internationally recognized writer, speaker, and podcast guest in the data and analytics community. He holds numerous community advocacy titles, including Snowflake Data Superhero and Oracle ACE Director.

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.

Ariel Lopez

Sales Development Representative

Ariel is an experienced Sales Development Representative with 4+ years working with tech start ups. Her experience ranges in supporting marketing, sales, and customer success.

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.

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.