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.

Suraj Bramhavar

Co-Founder, CTO

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.

Erica Lin

Lead Algorithm Engineer

Erica received her B.A. from Harvard University and her PhD from MIT. Prior to Sync, she was a data science and algorithm consultant for startups.

Sean Gorsky

Algorithm Engineer

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.

Casey Doran

VP of Product

Casey previously led Product at Cloudability, which was acquired by Apptio in 2019. Casey has held product leadership positions in cloud infrastructure, telecom, and social networking startups. Casey received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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.

Malino Oda

VP of Engineering

Malino has 10+ years of experience leading global engineering teams in the fields of fintech, healthcare and social networking. He attended U.C. Berkeley and University of Hawaii; graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Economics.

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.

Christian Avart

Senior Scientist

Christian received his PhD in Mathematics from Emory University. Prior to sync, he worked as a research scientist for Otosense and more recently as a Senior AI Engineer at Analog Devices.

Ryan Bales

Lead Product Designer

Ryan has 15+ years of experience in product design. He is passionate about designing functional and beautiful products for technical audiences. Prior to Sync, Ryan held product design positions in cloud computing, data analytics, and IT management.

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.

Sahil Shah

Sr. Data Scientist

Sahil was previously a data scientist on the R&D and engineering teams at venture-funded startups based out of Seattle and Chicago. He received his PhD in Applied Math from Northwestern University, where he studied statistical methods for analyzing genomic data.

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.

Pete Tamisin

Technical Customer Solutions Lead

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.

Sahil Singhal

Principal Software Engineer

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.

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.

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.