Jeff is Co-founder at VAST, overseeing marketing and product management teams. Jeff brings over two decades of experience with advanced computation and massively scalable big data and cloud storage technologies to VAST. Prior to joining VAST, Jeff held management roles at DDN, CTERA Networks, and Cluster File Systems. Jeff graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Trenton State College.

Andy is Field Chief Technology Officer at VAST, helping customers build, deploy, and scale some of the world’s largest and most demanding computing environments. Andy has spent the past 15 years focused on supporting and building large scale, high performance data platform solutions. From humble beginnings as an escalations engineer at pre-IPO Isilon, to leading a team of technical Ninjas at MapR, he’s consistently been in the frontlines solving some of the toughest challenges that customers face when implementing Big Data Analytics and next-generation AI solutions.

Johnny’s mission is to make tools that help others make things better. If you ever run into Johnny Dallas he’ll likely have a hot tea in his hand. In high school he entered the world of startups, building an internal developer platform at Bebo. He was the youngest engineer at Amazon at age 17. Now he’s building Zeet.co to bring the power of the cloud to organizations everywhere.

Sarfaraz is an accomplished builder in web software and cloud as a seasoned Software Engineer to Sales Engineer to now Business Development leader. If you ever run into Sarfaraz he’ll likely have a Japanese notebook in his hand. With an engineering degree from UCLA and an MBA from Berkeley Haas, his background combines technical knowledge with business strategy. Prior to Zeet he held leadership roles at companies like Netlify and Sift.

Nick is a 16 year veteran of the HPC scheduling space. In that time, he’s helped hundreds of customers from all industries and workloads find ways to optimize their HPC scheduling environment. At SchedMD, Nick manages the solutions engineering organization, consulting with customers as they migrate to Slurm from other schedulers or to achieve more from their current Slurm deployment.

Jacob Yundt is the Director of Compute Architecture at CoreWeave. Jacob joined CoreWeave in April 2023 and leads the teams responsible for all of CoreWeave's server hardware design, validation, automation and management.

Navarre Pratt is a Machine Learning Engineer at CoreWeave, who has been with the company since November 2022. Navarre helps create and benchmark projects in the accelerated cloud and works hands-on with clients to help them optimize their cloud infrastructure.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/navarre-pratt

Rahul Talari is a Sr. Machine Learning Platform Engineer at CoreWeave. As a software engineer at CoreWeave since May 2022, Rahul helps lead client-facing and internal team projects at the intersection of machine learning and large-scale distributed systems.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-talari-65155176/

As a long time member of the CoreWeave team, Jacob Feldman works closely with customers across use cases to design and implement solutions. Whether it’s troubleshooting difficult issues or solving problems of scale, Jacob has been witness to customers achieving incredible feats on CoreWeave.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-feldman-167175109/