Today we are talking to Yoni Eini, the CTO at Upsolver. And we discuss how being customer-driven has been his key to career success. How Upsolver’s data lake platform is an end-to-end data solution, and why Yoni prefers a company culture that doesn’t focus on hierarchy. 

All of this, right here, right now on the Modern CTO Podcast!

To learn more about Upsolver, check them out at https://www.upsolver.com

About Yoni Eini:

Yoni is a technologist specializing in big data and predictive analytics algorithms. He served in several senior technology roles, including as CTO of the data science division in the IDF’s elite technology intelligence unit. Yoni holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science which he started before he was 16.

About Upsolver:

We are a group of DBAs, infrastructure developers and industry veterans with an obsession to make data lakes easy to use for every database practitioner. We built the first version of Upsolver for our own use, enjoyed our own dog food and decided we had built something that could bring tremendous value to every company doing analytics in the cloud.

Eliminating the tradeoff between economics and efficiency

Databases were invented to abstract the complexity of coding over raw file systems so data teams could “speak” in schemas and SQL and therefore iterate faster. Data lake platforms like Hadoop and Spark, while affordable, have forced these teams to regress when it comes to ease of use.

At Upsolver, we eliminate the tradeoff between economics and efficiency. We simplify transforming raw data into queryable data through a visual SQL UI, and automate hundreds of data lake engineering tasks to optimize performance. All so that data teams can focus their valuable resources on building analytics that serve the business.