About me

I’m the founder and CEO of Knowbase, where we’re rethinking how companies interact with their internal documents. We use AI to help teams search, organize, and understand unstructured data turning scattered files into structured insight.

Before Knowbase, I was a cofounder/CTO at Segmed, a Y Combinator and StartX company. We built first ever platform for ethical sourcing of medical imaging data, along with privacy-preserving infrastructure that enabled hundreds of AI, healthcare, and life-science companies obtain FDA 510(k) clearance. Our platform processed billions of medical DICOM images across hospitals and vendors, allowing researchers build compliant AI products.

Segmed started during Stanford Ignite program, and was a part of YC W20 batch, Alchemist Batch 21, StartX winter 2020, with support from Stanford d.School and Stanford GSB Venture Studio program. We raised $20m from many investors (YC, Blumberg Capital, Mighty Capital, iGan Capital, Expeditions Fund, Engine Health, Advocate Health).

Before Segmed I was an early member of the team at Twin Prime, a startup focused on mobile network performance. I joined to help build core networking technology after dropping out of the Computer Science PhD program at Columbia University. After we were acquired by Salesforce in 2017, I stayed at Salesforce for 2 years to help scale our mobile infrastructure across hundreds of enterprise apps and millions of users.

2010–2014 I worked at Xilinx, where I helped build randomized OS-level stress-testing systems for ARM and ARM64 CPUs. I contributed to the development of Zynq, the world’s first ARM-based FPGA platform. I got involved in special purpose projects, like Single Event Upset and Process/Voltage/Temperature experiments. There’s also a little piece of Verilog that I wrote for Zynq and it taped out.

2008–2009 I held research roles as research assistant at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory(UK) under Robert Watson working on CHERI, Ericsson Nomadic Lab and HIIT (Finland) under Pekka Nikander and Jussi Kangasharju. working on FreeBSD NetFPGA driver. and Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana working under Thomas Sterling on Exascale computing.

2006–2011 I did my MSc in Computer Science and Engineering at Czestochowa University of Czestochowa advised by Roman Wyrzykowski and Andrzej Przybyl. During my studies, I worked part-time at Czestochowa Metropolitan Area Network (CzestMAN), and took internships at Poznan Supercomputer and Networking Center, Xilinx (San Jose, CA).

My professional software experience started in 2000 with UNIX, FreeBSD, Slackware Linux, and Open Source. I installed FreeBSD 4.5 first time shortly after my 13th birthday. Couple months later I began running it on several local neighborhood networks to provide Internet to their customers. I eventually took care of 10+ FreeBSD servers serving over 1,000 users, and I’d fix every bug I found in FreeBSD in the process. I installed and administered FreeBSD server at my highschool. During this time, I also took on consulting work: helping the city center with their server administration, assisting local computer stores with Linux/UNIX installations for their clients, and performing security audits for software companies. Those early years gave me hands-on exposure to operating systems, networking, entrepreneurship, and professional consulting. In 2006 in became the youngest FreeBSD developer at that time. I also published my first tech articles covering Open Source and FreeBSD in PC Kurier (became PC World) and Software 2.0 (became SD Journal?) and Linux+ (now Linux Magazine).

I like helping companies. When I see motivated teams working on hard and exciting problems, I get excited myself. I help startups around the world by advising companies like Fudo Security and CheckCells, speaking at Stanford Ignite (where Segmed was first formed), and mentoring founders through Y Combinator meetups, YC camping, and email. I also blog regularly and continue to contribute to open source.

I live in the Bay Area, CA.