Ari Zilka

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Biography

Mr. Ari Zilka serves as Chief Executive Officer at MyDecisive.AI. He serves as Board Member at Imply. He served as Partner at Khosla Ventures. He served as a Board Member at Koding. He focused on enterprise, infrastructure, cloud computing, data management, security, and programming frameworks and languages. Prior to joining Khosla Ventures, he was the chief technology officer at Hortonworks, the premier commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the de facto open-source platform for storing, managing, and processing big data. While there, he helped build the product management, sales, and services teams and led the company to ship its initial product. He also brokered several initial partner integrations and designs. More recently, he worked closely with customers building multi-thousand node clusters and designing business solutions on the platform and with the founding architects driving new features into the open source core itself. He also helped shepherd the company's successful initial public offering. Previously, he founded Terracotta, a leading data management technology provider, which was later acquired by Software AG. He also served as the founding chief architect of Walmart.com, where he led the innovation and development of the company's new engineering initiatives and built a team of engineers focused on performance management, operations, and cost-saving measures. Earlier in his career, he served as a consultant at Sapient and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he managed technology development and advised clients on strategy and deployment. He had successful engagements with Gap.com and Nike.com, Harrod's of London, Siemens, Intel, Compaq, and Barnes & Noble, among many others. He began his career as a software engineer for a subsidiary of Motorola. He was responsible for much of the data management infrastructure behind wireless networks, and in the mid-1990s, he invented a new object-relational database that helped shape today's database technology landscape. Since then, his software development accomplishments include projects in statistical analysis and data warehousing.