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Abhinav Asthana

Abhinav Asthana is an Indian software entrepreneur who co-founded Postman, the API development platform, in 2014 and has served as its chief executive officer since.

Alexis Lê-Quôc

Alexis Lê-Quôc is a French-born software engineer who co-founded the cloud monitoring company Datadog in New York in 2010 and serves as its chief technology officer.

Ankit Sobti

Ankit Sobti is an Indian software engineer who co-founded Postman, the API platform, and serves as its chief technology officer; he previously worked at Yahoo and Adobe.

Anthony James Barr

Anthony James Barr, known as Tony or Jim Barr, is an American software developer who wrote the original SAS language, co-founded SAS Institute in 1976, and later founded Barr Systems.

Anthony Woods

Anthony Woods is an Australian software engineer from Perth who co-founded Grafana Labs in 2014 with Raj Dutt and Torkel Ödegaard, serving as its founding chief technology officer.

Arash Ferdowsi

Arash Ferdowsi (آرش فردوسی) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Dropbox with Drew Houston in 2007, serving as its first chief technology officer until 2016.

Ben Blackmore

Ben Blackmore is a software engineer who is chief technology officer and co-founder of Dash0, an observability platform founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York.

Benoit Dageville

Benoit Dageville is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse company, in 2012 after more than 15 years as a lead architect at Oracle.

Borland

Borland, initially Borland International, was an American software company in Scotts Valley, California, founded by Philippe Kahn in 1983 and known for Turbo Pascal, dBASE, and Delphi.

Brannin McBee

Brannin McBee is a co-founder and Chief Development Officer of CoreWeave, the AI cloud infrastructure company he started in 2017 as an Ethereum mining operation and took public on Nasdaq in 2025.

Chris Stolte

Chris Stolte is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tableau in 2003 and developed VizQL, the visual query language at the heart of its products.

Christian Chabot

Christian Chabot is a software entrepreneur who co-founded Tableau Software in 2003, led it as chief executive through its 2013 IPO, and stayed until 2016.

Diane Greene

Diane Greene is an American software engineer and businesswoman who cofounded VMware in 1998, led it as CEO until 2008, and later ran Google Cloud from 2015 to 2019.

Docker (company)

Docker, Inc., originally dotCloud, is a Palo Alto company founded by Solomon Hykes that commercializes Docker container technology through Docker Desktop and Docker Hub subscriptions.

Firebolt

Firebolt is an Israeli cloud data warehouse company founded in 2019 by three Sisense veterans, offering sub-second analytics on large datasets, valued at $1.4 billion in 2022.

Foxglove Technologies Inc.

Foxglove Technologies Inc. is a San Francisco software company founded in 2021 that builds visualization and data tools for robotics and physical AI, and created the open-source MCAP log format.

Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is an American software company founded in 2014 by Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Woods to develop the Grafana open source observability platform.

Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch is an Argentine software engineer and cofounder and CEO of Vercel, the cloud platform behind Next.js, which he founded as ZEIT in 2015 after creating Socket.IO and Mongoose.

HashiCorp

HashiCorp is a developer-tools company co-founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, known for Terraform, Vault, and Consul, and acquired by IBM in 2025.

Ingres; Illustra Information Technologies

Illustra Information Technologies was an Oakland, California database company founded by Michael Stonebraker in 1992 to commercialize Berkeley's POSTGRES, and was acquired by Informix in 1996 for about $400 million.

Instabug

Instabug, rebranded as Luciq.ai in September 2025, is a mobile SDK company providing AI-powered mobile observability, founded in Cairo by Omar Gabr and Moataz Soliman with dual headquarters in Cairo and San Francisco.

Jane Helwig

Jane T. Helwig was one of the four co-founders of SAS Institute, the private software company incorporated in 1976, and co-authored A User's Guide to SAS-76.

John Sall

John Sall is an American software developer and businessman who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976, owns one-third of the analytics company, and founded and leads its JMP statistics subsidiary.

Linode

Linode is a cloud infrastructure provider offering Linux virtual machines, founded by Christopher Aker in 2003 and acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022 for about $900 million.

Marcel Birkner

Marcel Birkner is a software engineer who co-founded Dash0 in 2023, an observability company built on OpenTelemetry that reached a $1 billion valuation in 2026.

Michael Stonebraker

Michael Stonebraker is an American computer scientist who co-created the Ingres and Postgres database systems at Berkeley, founded a series of database companies, and won the 2014 Turing Award.

Michael Widenius

Michael (Monty) Widenius is a software engineer who co-created the MySQL database, co-founded MySQL AB, and later founded the MariaDB fork after leaving Sun Microsystems.

Miel Donkers

Miel Donkers is a software engineer who co-founded Dash0, an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform founded in Germany in 2023 and headquartered in New York, where he has served as Principal Software Engineer since May 2023.

Mitchell Hashimoto

Mitchell Hashimoto is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded HashiCorp in 2012, created the tools Vagrant and Terraform, and later built the Ghostty terminal emulator.

Olivier Pomel

Olivier Pomel is a French-born technology executive who cofounded the cloud monitoring company Datadog in New York in 2010 with Alexis Lê-Quôc and has served as its CEO ever since.