As chief technology officer, Ram Venkatesh oversees the long-term vision and technology strategy for the company, working closely with the engineering, product, and go-to-market functions. He joined Hortonworks in 2014, serving first as vice president of engineering and then as corporate vice president leading the team that delivered Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Ram has more than 25 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, with a strong interest in data management, query processing, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. He has held senior technical roles at several leading enterprise software and cloud companies. Most recently, he was the founding CEO at S3Edge, a startup focused on enterprise RFID solutions for mission-critical applications.