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Shiva Shivakumar

Fun with data

Los Altos, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $0.00
  • Max Investment:

    $0.00
  • Target Investment:

    $0.00

Education

Work Experience

2019

  • 2019

    1. 2018 - now: Teaching cs145.stanford.edu on big data. 2. 2018 - now: Helping a few special people and projects in data/AI 3. 2019-2021: Health Data @Nuna: Helped scale value-based payments, and built a strong data+technology team

2016 - 2019

  • VP

    2016 - 2019

  • ceo/co-founder

    2011 - 2016

    Urban Engines improves urban mobility — making it easier to get where you’re going — by using information from the billions of trips that people and vehicles make each day. Our products help visualize, analyze and optimize how people & vehicles move from the rapidly growing amounts of movement data generated by the Internet of Moving Things.

2001 - 2010

  • VP Engineering & Distinguished Entrepreneur

    2001 - 2010

    In various roles (from Engineer to VP), spinning up new tech/products/teams, and businesses. My teams built products for ads, search, cloud apps and enterprise, that made billions of $s in revenues, touched 100s of millions of users and 10s of millions of web publishers. I was lucky to work with special engineers+PMs helping start+scale AdSense, Dremel/BigQuery, sitemaps.org, Webmaster Central, Apps/Gmail, and Search Appliances (yup, those yellow/blue boxes). I also helped build Google's engineering centers from scratch at Kirkland/Seattle, Bangalore and Zurich, between 2004-2008.

  • Co-founder

    1999 - 2001

    Cofounded an online music technology company based on my PhD dissertation.