# Vinoo Ganesh

> Vinoo Ganesh is CEO & Co-Founder of Kepler. Speaker, technologist, and startup advisor specializing in data engineering, AI engineering, and scalable systems. Former CTO at Veraset, Head of Business Engineering at Citadel, Engineer at Palantir Technologies.

https://vinoo.io/

## About

Vinoo Ganesh is the CEO & Co-Founder of Kepler (kepler.ai), building deterministic AI infrastructure for financial data. Previously Head of Business Engineering at Citadel, CTO at Veraset (acquired), and Engineer at Palantir Technologies. LinkedIn Learning instructor covering data engineering, dbt, and AI engineering.

## Blog Posts

- [The Definitive Guide to Forward Deployed Engineering](https://vinoo.io/posts/2026-02-05-forward-deployed-engineering/): A comprehensive guide to Forward Deployed Engineering - the role, the skills, the career path, and how Palantir's Project Frontline scaled FDE culture across the industry.
- [Context Is The Easy Part](https://vinoo.io/posts/2026-01-30-context-is-the-easy-part/): Context engineering isn't a context problem. It's an engineering problem - and the data world already solved it once.
- [Introducing Kepler](https://vinoo.io/posts/2026-01-30-introducing-kepler/): Why we built Kepler - an AI platform where AI interprets intent while deterministic code retrieves data and performs calculations, making every answer traceable and reproducible.
- [Databricks Delta Live Tables 101](https://vinoo.io/posts/2024-03-08-databricks-delta-live-tables/): A comprehensive guide to understanding Databricks Delta Live Tables and their role in modern data engineering workflows
- [Rethinking Serverless: The Price of Convenience](https://vinoo.io/posts/2024-02-09-rethinking-serverless/): Examining the hidden costs and challenges of serverless functions in modern enterprise environments
- [The Efficiently Guide to Snowflake (Top Down)](https://vinoo.io/posts/2023-02-02-efficiently-guide-to-snowflake/): 4 changes you can make right now to run Snowflake more Efficiently.
- [Hands-On: Predicate Pushdown](https://vinoo.io/posts/2023-01-28-hands-on-predicate-pushdown/): A practical demonstration of how query optimizers leverage Parquet metadata to skip unnecessary data reads.
- [Distributed Data and Blocks](https://vinoo.io/posts/2023-01-24-distributed-data-and-blocks/): Tuning the 'chunks' of data that live on distributed file systems.
- [On-Disk Storage Methods (w/ visualizations)](https://vinoo.io/posts/2023-01-14-on-disk-storage-methods/): The way you write data can affect your performance. Exploring row-wise, columnar, and hybrid storage methods with visualizations.
- [Introducing: Efficiently](https://vinoo.io/posts/2022-12-28-introducing-efficiently/): A blog dedicated to operationalizing data in a world of limited resources.

## Talks, Courses & Projects

- [Fundamentals of AI Engineering: Principles and Practical Applications](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2025-06-06-fundamentals-of-ai-engineering/): Transform your software engineering skills into AI engineering capabilities with hands-on, practical implementations of RAG systems, vector databases, and hybrid search.
- [Building Chatbots with Rasa](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2024-02-09-rasa-developer/): Navigating CALM's Benefits: Technical Insights from Vinoo Ganesh
- [Advance Your SQL Skills with dbt for Data Engineering](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2023-09-26-intro-to-dbt/): Using DBT in Real World Situations
- [The Future in Tech: Data Engineering Powers AI Revolution](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2023-08-03-future-tech-data-engineering-ai/): Data engineering as the unsung hero fueling AI growth - a deep dive into how data engineering transforms AI potential into reality
- [Hands-On Introduction: Data Engineering](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2023-04-28-hands-on-data-engineering/): Introduction to Data Engineering
- [Optimizing Query Workloads](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2022-09-28-optimizing-data-pipelines/): How to benchmark cost, optimize workloads, and manage your Snowflake bill - The Data Stack Show
- [O'Reilly Superstream Series: Data Pipelines](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2022-08-10-superstream-pipelines/): Live coding session building an ETL pipeline in Airflow in 30 minutes - O'Reilly Data Superstream Series
- [Apache Parquet Website](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2022-03-25-parquet-website/): Rebuilding the Parquet Website
- [Ask a CISO: S3 Bucket Permissions and IAM Audits](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2022-03-16-s3-iam/): How to secure S3 bucket permissions and conduct IAM audits to protect your most valuable data assets
- [Designing Data Pipelines — with Interactivity](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2022-03-10-designing-data-pipelines/): O'Reilly live training on building scalable, monitorable data pipelines - covering core components, frameworks, and alerting
- [O'Reilly Radar: Data & AI](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2021-10-14-radar-data-ai/): O'Reilly Radar event covering critical issues, tools, and best practices in data and AI for tech leaders
- [Data SLA Nightmares & Lessons Learned](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2021-08-11-data-sla-nightmares/): Discussion on the complexities of setting clear data SLAs and what businesses have to lose when their data is wrong
- [Guaranteeing pipeline SLAs and data quality standards with Databand](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2021-07-14-guaranteeing-pipeline-slas/): Airflow Summit 2021
- [Migrating to Parquet](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2021-07-13-migrating-to-parquet/): How migrating from CSV to Apache Parquet transformed data delivery at Veraset - Subsurface Summer 2021
- [Accelerating Data Evaluation](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2021-05-28-accelerating-data-evaluation/): Data + Ai Summit 2021
- [Strata Data Superstream Series: Creating Data-Intensive Applications](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2021-05-04-superstream/): O'Reilly Strata Data Superstream on design and engineering best practices for data-intensive applications
- [Large Scale Data Analytics with Vinoo Ganesh](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2021-02-05-data-standard/): Data Standard
- [The Apache Spark File Format Ecosystem](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2020-06-24-spark-file-format-ecosystem/): Spark Summit 2020
- [Campus Circulator Application](https://vinoo.io/teaching/2013-02-18-campus-circ/): Building a real-time mobile tracking app for the Washington University campus shuttle

## Pages

- [About Me](https://vinoo.io/about/): CEO & Co-Founder at Kepler. Former CTO at Veraset (acquired), Head of Business Engineering at Citadel, Built compute platforms at Palantir.
- [What I'm doing now](https://vinoo.io/now/): Building Kepler - the next generation of data and AI platforms

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