About
Kamal Gupta is co-founder and CEO of Omnistrate. He previously led engineering for Kafka at Confluent and database engineering for AWS Aurora MySQL, where he worked from 2007 to 2020 and built multiple cloud services across different domains.
Founder at OmnistrateYC W23
Intro paths
YC
Kamal went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Omnistrate's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Kamal can intro founders to Omnistrate's investors below.
Omnistrate's investors · 4
Co-founders at Omnistrate
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Alok NikhilFounder
Experience
- OmnistrateFounder and CEO (YC W23)current2023 — present
- Felafax AI (YC S24)Angel Investorcurrent2024 — present
- Pioneer FundVenture Partnercurrent2023 — present
- ConfluentGeneral Manager2021 — 2023
- ConfluentSenior Director2020 — 2021Mountain View, California, United States
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Senior Leadership2013 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- Neptune.ioCo-Founder and CTO2012 — 2013
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Engineering Manager2011 — 2012
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Senior Software Engineer2007 — 2012
- Intel CorporationResearch Scientist2006 — 2007
- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)Research Scientist2005 — 2006
Skills & more
SQL9Database Development17Performance14Distributed Caching7C++12C7Distributed Systems23Scalability8Cloud Computing9Perl3Java6Amazon Web Services (AWS)5
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DatabasesAlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringMonitoring systemsAgile MethodologiesPythonSoftware DevelopmentLinuxFrom Kamal's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kamal Gupta?
- Kamal Gupta is co-founder and CEO of Omnistrate. He previously led engineering for Kafka at Confluent and database engineering for AWS Aurora MySQL, where he worked from 2007 to 2020 and built multiple cloud services across different domains.
- Where does Kamal Gupta work?
- Kamal Gupta is Founder of Omnistrate.
- What companies did Kamal Gupta found?
- Kamal Gupta founded Omnistrate.
- Where did Kamal Gupta go to school?
- Kamal Gupta studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (B.Tech, Computer Science); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Masters, Computer Science).
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