Soam Acharya

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Chief Development Architect at SAP

Technology / Software / Internet

Technology executive at SAP which recently bought my previous company Altiscale, a startup backed by top Silicon Valley VCs (Sequoia, Accel, General Catalyst), building the world's best managed Hadoop platform as a service. We were selected as one of the Red Herring 2015 Top 100 as well as by Gartner as one of the top Big Data Cool Vendors. Check out the slides below from my talks at Strata Hadoop World and Hadoop Summit to get a flavor of what we do. Formerly, as Chief Scientist and Architect of the Video Platform Solutions division (formerly Delve) at Limelight Networks, I provided the vision and horsepower to attack difficult problems in the online video, search/monetization and seman...