VG

Vivek Gopalan

8VC

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $3,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $30,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $16,500,000.00

Work Experience

2020

  • Investing & Building

    2020

    Focus on enterprise data & software infrastructure and B2B SaaS.

2020 - 2020

  • Software Engineer

    2020 - 2020

    Distributed SQL on the cloud. Implemented Tablegroups - configurable colocated partitioning.

2019 - 2019

  • Software Engineer

    2019 - 2019

    Sales Intelligence Machine Learning Team at Bloomberg. Built and deployed models (& model pipelines) from end-to-end. Worked on some bandit feedback problems.

  • Undergraduate Developer

    2018 - 2019

    Lead developer for the Pauli Murray Digiography Project. Topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and NER. Trying to solve graph generation problems (tying entities to topics & sentiment).

2018 - 2018

  • Summer Research Intern

    2018 - 2018

    Working with Professor Ruzica Piskac to develop a functionally reactive network controller. Learned & forgot P4, and fell out of love with Haskell.

2016 - 2017

  • Engineering Intern

    2016 - 2017

    Built automations and counted cars & trucks. Mostly fun with a bit of VBA chaos sprinkled in.