Vinoo Ganesh is Chief Technology Officer at Veraset, a data-as-a-service startup focused on understanding the world from a geospatial perspective. Vinoo previously managed the compute team at Palantir Technologies, tasked with managing Spark and its interaction with HDFS, S3, Parquet, YARN and Kubernetes across the company. Most recently, this team was closely involved in pushing forward a number of open source Spark initiatives, including a DataSource V2 implementation and the External shuffle service.