Projects

Originally published on Kepler AI produces numbers that are incorrect, untraceable, and unverifiable. Asking the same question twice yields different answers, and there’s no way to distinguish right from wrong outputs. This unreliability poses serious risks across industries like healthcare, legal, insurance, government, and finance where numerical accuracy directly impacts outcomes. Through conversations with 137 financial firms - including private equity, hedge funds, and investment banks - a consistent pattern emerged: everyone wants to use AI, but nobody trusts it. As one managing director stated, “I can’t put a number in front of a client if I can’t show where it came from.” ...

Tell us about your background Throughout my career, I have dedicated myself to creating tools, products, and technologies that help people effectively utilize their data. My passion lies in developing products that enable users to efficiently and scalably gain maximum value from their data. My journey in understanding the intricacies of data and its potential began at Palantir Technologies, where I began working on search and indexing products. As data volumes grew, I focused my efforts on solving some of Palantir customers’ core problems across the financial and defense verticals before leading customer focused compute teams. After Palantir, I served as CTO at Veraset, a cloud-based data-as-a-service company. Veraset delivered high-quality, large scale data to a number of enterprises and grew to 15M ARR before being acquired. Following this, I joined Citadel Investment Group as the Head of Business Engineering of Ashler. In that role, I managed crucial data operations, including overseeing data pipelines, investment platforms, data lakes, and the software and data engineering teams responsible for them. ...

Originally published on Efficiently (Substack) My name is Vinoo and I’ll be your guide, writer, and (likely) ranter throughout this series. 0. What this is Recently, I had a friend recommend Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work. I read it over the course of a short plane ride and realized… it’s time to start showing my work. Publicly. This blog series, at its core, is a collection of things learned while building analytical tools, creating data products, and consuming data products. Mostly, it’s intended as a technical series for technical audiences, but the direction remains uncertain. ...

The Parquet website was a bit dated - especially given its heavy usage. I took the opportunity to rebuild the website using Hugo. Check it out and please let me know if you have any feedback! Code https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/commit/3563721676b364b767058a953f2bcc3e2c0c4b09 Link https://parquet.apache.org

I built an app to help Wash U Students get around campus! Check out the story / link below. An engineering undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis helped create and launch a mobile app that helps students track the campus circulator shuttle. Vinoo Ganesh, a senior majoring in computer science in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, developed the real-time tracking app, titled “WUSTL Circulator.” The app also shows the circulator’s route and stopping points along with a full schedule that students can browse. ...