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The modern data stack needs a reimagined metadata management platform

Acryl Data’s vision is to bring clarity to your data through its next generation multi-cloud metadata management platform. The technology is based on LinkedIn DataHub and Apache Gobblin - two successful open source projects incubated at LinkedIn, and battle-hardened in production at scale at major enterprises.

Our Story
Founded by the leaders that created projects like LinkedIn DataHub and Airbnb Dataportal, Acryl Data provides a developer-friendly modern data catalog built on top of a next generation Metadata Platform to bring clarity to data in all enterprises.

The last decade of innovation in the data tools has led to increasing ability to capture, store and process data at all levels of volume, variety and velocity. Companies have greatly benefited from data-driven decision making based on the freshest data and deriving business value using AI-enabled data products.

An unintended consequence of this innovation has been the increasing fragmentation due to specialized data tools. With the explosion of different kinds of data -- from online databases, to streaming data, to data at rest, to features, models, dashboards and metrics -- data professionals and executives are struggling to realize value from data effectively. Meanwhile, central data teams find themselves chronically understaffed to cater to the needs of all the data professionals at the company, while implementing global policies consistently across the organization. Tech giants like LinkedIn and Airbnb have solved this problem over multiple years of evolution and investment, but most organizations don’t have access to these highly specialized teams and technology. Even when the technology is open sourced as in the case of LinkedIn DataHub, companies may not have the resources to run and operate this at scale and integrate it effectively into their operational data fabric to power critical workflows.

We believe that data-driven organizations need a reimagined developer-friendly data catalog to tackle the diversity and scale of the modern data stack. Our goal is to provide the most reliable and trusted enterprise data graph to empower data teams with best-in-class search and discovery and enable continuous data quality based on DataOps practices. This allows central data teams to scale their effectiveness and companies to maximize the value they derive from data.

Executive Team

Shirshanka Das

Shirshanka Das

Co-founder and CEO
Prior to founding Acryl Data, Shirshanka was the overall architect for Big Data at LinkedIn from 2010 to 2020.
Swaroop Jagadish

Swaroop Jagadish

Co-founder and CTO
Previously, Swaroop was Head of Data Platform and Search Infrastructure at Airbnb from 2014 to 2020.

Advisors

Jeff Weiner

Jeff Weiner

Founding Partner of Next Play Ventures and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn
Jeff is Founding Partner of Next Play Ventures and the executive chairman of LinkedIn.
Joe Hellerstein

Joe Hellerstein

Jim Gray Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Joseph M. Hellerstein is the Jim Gray Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kumar Ramachandran

Kumar Ramachandran

Senior Vice-President, Palo Alto Networks
Kumar currently serves as Senior Vice-President at Palo Alto Networks for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) products.

Team

John Joyce

John Joyce

Co-founder & Engineer
he/him
Gabe Lyons

Gabe Lyons

Founding Engineer
he/him
Maggie Hays

Maggie Hays

Founding Community Product Manager
she/her
Harshal Sheth

Harshal Sheth

Founding Engineer
he/him
Elizabeth Cohen

Elizabeth Cohen

Talent & Employee Experience Lead
she/her
David Leifker

David Leifker

Founding Engineer
he/him
MinhHa Pham

MinhHa Pham

Head of Customer Success
she/her
Craig Breslawski

Craig Breslawski

Head of Marketing
he/him
Keonna Lopez

Keonna Lopez

Office Manager
she/her
Pedro Silva

Pedro Silva

Software Engineer
he/him
Tamás Németh

Tamás Németh

Software Engineer
he/him
Brittanie Jakubowich

Brittanie Jakubowich

Product Designer
she/her
Aseem Bansal

Aseem Bansal

Software Engineer
he/him
Aditya Radhakrishnan

Aditya Radhakrishnan

Software Engineer
he/him
Hyejin Yoon

Hyejin Yoon

Developer Relations Engineer
she/her
Paul Logan

Paul Logan

Developer Relations Lead
he/him
Ryan Holstien

Ryan Holstien

Software Engineer
he/him
Chris Collins

Chris Collins

Software Engineer
he/him
Sarah Bugden

Sarah Bugden

Account Executive
she/her
Andrew Sikowitz

Andrew Sikowitz

Software Engineer
he/him
Indy Prentice

Indy Prentice

Software Engineer
she/her
Dan Mulroy

Dan Mulroy

Chief of Staff
he/him

Investors

8VC
LinkedIn
Insight
Next Play
Webb
Data Community Fund

Latest News & Press

YouTube - Oct, 14, 2022

Data Swamp to Data Swimming Pool: Cleaning up the Mess 

Spotify, Zero Prime Podcast - Oct, 11, 2022

Metadata Architecture with Shirshanka Das 

Great Expectations Blog - Sep, 6, 2022

Better Together: DataHub and Great Expectations 

YouTube - Aug, 14, 2022

The Data Practitioners Guide to Metadata 

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