About Us
We believe you shouldn't need a Ph.D. to get information from your data
Matthias Broecheler
Matthias is the former Chief Technologist at DataStax, the company behind the NoSQL Cassandra database. He invented the JanusGraph database (formerly TitanDB) and is an author of O’Reilly’s “Practitioner’s Guide to Graph Data”.
He was a founder of the database company Aurelius which was acquired by DataStax in 2015.
Matthias holds a PhD in database systems and machine learning from the University of Maryland where he developed the PSL machine learning framework.
Matthias is too short to be a competitive rower but loves it anyways.
Michael "Canz" Canzoneri
Canz is a three-time Silicon Valley unicorn veteran with IPO experience, having led and scaled companies in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, and Real-time Distributed Computing.. He has grown companies from zero to 8-figures in revenue and global teams from single-digit to hundreds of people several times. He also serves as an advisor for several startups in Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Green Technologies.
Canz has attended M.I.T., Harvard, Villanova, and Penn State. He's written an award-winning screenplay, several books on Philosophy and Religion, and blog posts on the intersection of Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Event Streaming. He has also written and produced several independent movies, but his favorite subject is college football.