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Thejas (TJ) Nair

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Founder at CarbonBright

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

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About

Thejas (TJ) Nair is the co-founder and CTO of CarbonBright, a climate tech startup that applies big data and AI to environmental life cycle assessment for measuring and reducing carbon footprints. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering and previously served as a committer and PMC member for Apache Hive and Apache Pig within the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Nair also led the engineering team at Hortonworks, working on big data analytics solutions for cloud and on-premise deployments.

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Experience

  1. CarbonBrightCo-founder and CTOcurrent2023 — presentPhoenix, Arizona, United States
  2. The Apache Software FoundationApache Hive committer and PMC membercurrent2013 — present
  3. The Apache Software FoundationApache pig committer and PMC membercurrent2009 — present
  4. NAExploring startup ideas in climate tech2021 — 2023
  5. ClouderaDirector of Engineering/Sr Engineering Manager/Manager - Data Warehouse/Hive2015 — 2021
  6. HortonWorksSoftware engineer - Founding team - Apache Hive Services, Apache Pig2011 — 2015Greater Phoenix Area
  7. Yahoo!Technical Yahoo! - Apache Pig2009 — 2011
  8. Yahoo!Technical Yahoo2006 — 2009
  9. Yahoo!Technical Yahoo2004 — 2006
  10. Yahoo!Technical Yahoo- Data Warehousing2002 — 2005

Skills & more

Engineering LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)Life Cycle AssessmentApache SparkApache HiveCustomer ValidationClimate ChangeSustainable AgricultureWeb ServicesInformation SecuritySoftware ArchitectureKubernetes
+12 moreRemote TeamworkRemote Team ManagementApache PigDistributed SystemsScalabilityData WarehousingAgile MethodologiesCloud ComputingSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Enterprise Softwareperformance optimizationApache Hadoop
  • Toastmasters Presentation Mastery - Level 2 — Toastmasters International
  • Functional Programming Principles in Scala — Coursera Course Certificates

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Who is Thejas (TJ) Nair?
Thejas (TJ) Nair is the co-founder and CTO of CarbonBright, a climate tech startup that applies big data and AI to environmental life cycle assessment for measuring and reducing carbon footprints. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering and previously served as a committer and PMC member for Apache Hive and Apache Pig within the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Nair also led the engineering team at Hortonworks, working on big data analytics solutions for cloud and on-premise deployments.
Where does Thejas (TJ) Nair work?
Thejas (TJ) Nair is Founder of CarbonBright.
What companies did Thejas (TJ) Nair found?
Thejas (TJ) Nair founded CarbonBright.
Where did Thejas (TJ) Nair go to school?
Thejas (TJ) Nair studied at Terra.do (Climate Change: Learning for Action Fellow "22); National Institute of Technology Karnataka (Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering); Kendriya Vidyalaya.

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