Startup/Founding Experience
LogLogic (2002-2012)
Role: Founding CEO, VP Product
Co-founded LogLogic, a pioneering provider of scalable log management and security intelligence solutions for enterprise and cloud environments. Built one of the industry's first platforms specifically designed to help IT administrators automate log data management and diagnose system problems at scale.
Investors: Investors in LogLogic included Sequoia Capital, TeleSoft Partners, Worldview Technology Partners, Invesco Private Capital, Focus Ventures, and SAP Ventures
Acquisition: Acquired by TIBCO Software in April 2012 for $130 million. At acquisition, LogLogic served over 1,000 enterprise customers worldwide.
RapidEngines (2011-2014)
Role: Founding CEO, VP Product
Co-founded RapidEngines (formerly Rapid IO), a provider of highly scalable log analytics software that helped companies manage and better utilize high-volume application log data. Built solutions enabling applications to run faster while quickly identifying security concerns.
Funding: Raised $1.38M from El Dorado Ventures, Rally Ventures, and Vesbridge Partners
Acquisition: Acquired by SevOne in March 2014. This was SevOne's first acquisition after their $150M funding round from Bain Capital.
Product Launches (2025)
dbt Labs - AI Product Suite
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dbt Copilot - AI-powered coding assistant for analytics engineers
Integrated AI assistant helping users write SQL, generate documentation, and improve code quality within their existing dbt workflow.
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dbt MCP - Model Context Protocol implementation
Enabled seamless integration between dbt projects and AI tools through the Model Context Protocol standard. Added several tools for agents including building data transformations & semantic layer, querying data from any of our partner data warehouse platforms, orchestrating data jobs, and providing context for most AI agents that require structured data.
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dbt Agents - Autonomous agents for analytics engineers
Launched Data Discovery Agent (for searching through metadata), Analysis Agent (for SQL and semantic layer queries), and Orchestration Agent (for managing data models). Local development agent capabilities were explored but not released to production.
2024-2025 - dbt Labs
Book
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Structured for Intelligence (O'Reilly) – co-authored at dbt Labs
Structuring data and analytics for AI. Download PDF.
Blogs
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dbt Agents & Remote dbt MCP Server: Trusted AI for Analytics - Oct 22, 2025
Announcing the launch of dbt Agents and the Remote dbt MCP Server, enabling trusted AI-powered analytics workflows with proper governance and context.
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dbt Copilot is GA - Mar 19, 2025
General availability announcement for dbt Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant for analytics engineers.
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Why Your AI Will Fail Without a Semantic Layer - Jan 31, 2025
Thought leadership on the critical role of semantic layers in building reliable AI systems for analytics and data applications.
Webinars & Video Content
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Build Reliable AI Agents with the dbt MCP Server - Aug 2025
Webinar demonstrating how to build trustworthy AI agents using the dbt Model Context Protocol server.
- Build Reliable AI Agents with the dbt MCP Server (YouTube) - Aug 2025
- Skills and Github additions to Codepathfinder (YouTube) - 2025
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AI-Powered Conversational Analytics with the dbt MCP Server - Oct 2025
Webinar exploring conversational analytics capabilities enabled by the dbt MCP Server integration.
2024 - Elastic
Release Announcements
- Elastic Observability 8.15: AI Assistant, OTel, and log quality enhancements August 2024
- Elastic Observability 8.14: New feature for SLO, AI Assistant, and .NET for Universal Profiling June 2024
- Elastic Observability 8.13: GA of AI Assistant support for AWS Bedrock and enhancements for AI Assistant and SLO March 2024
- Elastic Observability 8.12: GA for AI Assistant, SLO, and Mobile APM support January 2024
Webinars
2023
Release Announcements
- Elastic Observability 8.11: ESQL, Universal Profiling in APM, and enhanced SLOs November 2023
- Elastic Observability 8.10: Elastic AI Assistant enhancements and GA of Universal Profiling September 2023
- Elastic Observability 8.9: Introducing AI Assistant and up to 70% cost savings on metrics storage July 2023
- Elastic Observability 8.8: Efficient operations with GitOps-based synthetics monitoring and direct AWS Firehose ingest May 2023