About

Arun Thulasidharan is a highly experienced data engineer with over 12 years of experience building and scaling systems in the startup ecosystem. He is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Castled Data, a YCombinator startup that offers a warehouse-native customer engagement platform that sits directly on top of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and Postgres. Arun is an expert in ETL, senior software engineering, data engineering, and software engineering. Before starting Castled Data, Arun worked as a Data Architect at Hevo Data, where he was one of their first tech hires. He helped build ETL and Reverse ETL solutions that scale to billions of events/day in the present day. Prior to that, he worked as an early engineer at Flipkart and Media IQ digital. Arun's technical expertise includes ETL, Snowflake, Postgres, and software engineering. He is an expert in building and scaling systems that can handle large amounts of data. Arun is a YCombinator W22 graduate and has a degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. As the CEO and Co-founder of Castled Data, Arun is responsible for leading the company's vision and strategy. He has a deep understanding of the challenges that businesses face when it comes to customer engagement and has built a platform that helps companies build dynamic user segments directly on top of cloud data warehouses and engage them in real-time across multiple channels like email, SMS, WhatsApp, push, in-app, etc. Arun is a highly skilled and experienced data engineer with a proven track record of building and scaling systems in the startup ecosystem. He is a thought leader in the industry and is committed to helping businesses leverage their data to drive growth and engagement.