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Vijay Ganesan

Founder

Founder at NetSpring

Saratoga, California, United States

FoundedNetSpring

About

Vijay Ganesan works in product at Snowflake and co-founded NetSpring.io and ThoughtSpot. His work focuses on enterprise software in data analytics, business intelligence, data science, cloud, and AI, spanning engineering, design, and product management functions.

Founder at NetSpring

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NetSpring's investors · 3

Dell Technologies CapitalPalo Alto · $500K – $50M checksKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checksWipro VenturesBengaluru · $1M – $10M checks

Experience

  1. SnowflakeProduct @ Snowflakecurrent2025 — present
  2. Various StartupsAdvisor, Investorcurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  3. OptimizelySVP, GM Analytics2024 — 2025
  4. NetSpring.io (acquired by Optimizely)Co-Founder and CEO2019 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  5. ThoughtSpotCo-Founder, VP Product Management2016 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  6. ThoughtSpotCo-Founder, Principal2012 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  7. OracleArchitect, Business Intelligence2005 — 2012San Francisco Bay Area
  8. OracleArchitect, PeopleTools Reporting and Analytics, PeopleSoft2004 — 2005San Francisco Bay Area
  9. i2 TechnologiesAdvanced Member of Technical Staff, Aspect Development (acquired by i2 Technologies)1999 — 2004San Francisco Bay Area
  10. SiemensTechnical Team Lead1994 — 1999Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
  11. DESGI Inc.Software Engineer and Founding Architect1992 — 1994San Francisco Bay Area

Skills & more

Business Intelligence43Distributed Systems28Analytics20Big Data16Architecture14Algorithms13Mobile Applications6Data Warehousing3Computer Science2Mathematical Modeling2Operations Research2Data Mining2
+12 moreUser ExperienceData VisualizationStatisticsOBIEEMiddlewareBusiness Intelligence ToolsJavaScript LibrariesApplication ServersJavaPeopleSoftFlashJ2EE

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Vijay Ganesan?
Vijay Ganesan works in product at Snowflake and co-founded NetSpring.io and ThoughtSpot. His work focuses on enterprise software in data analytics, business intelligence, data science, cloud, and AI, spanning engineering, design, and product management functions.
Where does Vijay Ganesan work?
Vijay Ganesan is Founder of NetSpring.
What companies did Vijay Ganesan found?
Vijay Ganesan founded NetSpring.
Where did Vijay Ganesan go to school?
Vijay Ganesan studied at North Carolina State University (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (incomplete), Operations Research); North Carolina State University (Master's degree, Electrical Engineering); Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering).

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