Data infrastructure
Product professionals in Data infrastructure
These ten product leaders have held product management roles at companies that build data infrastructure and data platforms. A reader can learn how these teams decide which pipeline, storage and query capabilities to build and how customers come to adopt them.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alex Kotopoulis
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · Oracle
Director of Product Management at Oracle since 2008; the profile headline reads Director of Product Management for Cloud Data Integration. Other listed roles include Program Product Manager at BEA Systems (2005–2008) and Software Architect at Vitria Technology, Inc. (2002–2005). The summary describes more than 20 years in enterprise software across cloud, big data, data and application integration and middleware.
Can Efeoglu
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · Databricks
Director of Product Management at Databricks since 2019. Other listed roles include Director of Product Management at Dremio (2016–2019) and Product Manager at Striim (2014–2016). The profile highlights say the role focuses on new product efforts and list launches of Databricks SQL, Lakehouse Federation and Unity Catalog Semantics.
Douglas Fallstrom
LinkedInExperience: VP, Products and Operations · Hammerspace
VP, Products and Operations at Hammerspace since 2018. Other listed roles include Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing at Primary Data Inc (from 2017, no end date listed), Sr. Director, Product Management at Coho Data (2014–2016) and Sr. Director, Product Management at Symantec (2013–2014). The highlights describe Hammerspace as a data infrastructure and analytics company.
Gaurav Saxena
LinkedInExperience: Group Product Manager - BigQuery · Google
Former Group Product Manager - BigQuery at Google (2021–2026) and Director of Product Management at Google since 2026. Other listed roles include Principal Product Manager - Azure Synapse (2018–2021) and Senior Product Manager - Azure Data Platform (2015–2018) at Microsoft, and Product Management - Amazon S3 & Elastic block store at Amazon (2013–2015). The headline places the current role at Google Agentic Data Cloud.
Kiran Matty
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management, Ecosystem and AI ML · Aerospike
Former Director of Product Management, Ecosystem and AI ML at Aerospike (2019–2022). Product Management Leader, AI ML Infrastructure at Couchbase since 2023; other listed roles include Principal Product Manager (L7) at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2022–2023) and Lead Product Manager at Hortonworks (2016–2019). The profile summary describes helping enterprises move from AI proofs of concept to production-scale agentic systems.
Krithika Balagurunathan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Product Management · ClickHouse
Senior Director of Product Management at ClickHouse since 2022. Other listed roles include Senior Director of Product Management (2022) and Director of Product Management (2020–2022) at DataStax, and Director Product Management - Event Stream Processing (2017–2020) at TIBCO. The profile highlights describe launching and scaling ClickHouse Cloud across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Manish Dalwadi
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product, Databricks Lakeflow · Databricks
Director of Product, Databricks Lakeflow at Databricks since 2024. Other listed roles include Director of Product, Google BigQuery at Google (2015–2024) and Founding Product Manager, Amazon Aurora at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2011–2015). The highlights describe Databricks as offering a unified platform for data, analytics and AI.
Nadim Hossain
LinkedInExperience: VP, Product Management · Databricks
Former VP, Product Management at Databricks (2021–2024), and Vice President of Product Management at Confluent, an IBM Company since 2024. Also listed: Head of Product, Simulation Dev & Test Platforms, Self-driving (Uber ATG) at Uber (2018–2021). The summary says that, as part of the Databricks senior leadership team, the person helped scale the company from $425M to more than $1.5B in ARR.
Rakshith Venkatesh
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · VAST Data
Director of Product Management at VAST Data since 2026. Other listed roles include Lead Product Manager at MinIO (2024–2026), Sr Product Manager, Cloud Data Integration at Informatica (2021–2024) and Senior Product Manager at Dell Technologies (2019–2020). The headline names AI platforms and data infrastructure, and the summary describes building and scaling distributed systems.
Zaki Lu
LinkedInExperience: Product Director · VeloDB (Powered by Apache Doris)
Product Director at VeloDB (Powered by Apache Doris) since 2023. Other listed roles include DevRel & Committer at Apache Doris (2023–2024) and Senior Product Manager at Baidu, Inc. (2018–2022). The summary describes contributing to the Apache Doris open-source real-time data warehouse and its commercial offering, VeloDB.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01When customers asked for a pipeline or platform capability your roadmap didn't cover, how did you decide whether to build it?
- 02How did you weigh open-source community expectations against features reserved for paying customers?
- 03Tell me about a platform release that customers were slow to adopt. What did you change afterwards?
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