Ajay Kulkarni

Builder of companies, teams, products. In 2017 I co-founded Timescale to give teams the best Postgres for time-series workloads. Eight years, 2,000+ customers, and a name change later, TigerData is the modern PostgreSQL for the Analytical and Agentic Era— engineered for scale, real-time analytics, and AI-native applications.Today I lead a 200-person, fully remote team that powers mission-critical systems at innovators like Mistral, Hugging Face, Nvidia, Toyota, NASA, and Schneider Electric. We’ve raised $180 M from investors who share our vision to accelerate the future by serving developers.Before TigerData, I studied computer science at MIT, built products at early-stage startups, and fell in love with the craft of turning hard infrastructure problems into simple developer experiences. I write and speak about databases, AI-augmented engineering, and the future of software.If you’re building applications that demand speed, scale, or intelligence, let’s connect.