Raj Bains is the Founder & CEO of Prophecy. Previously, Raj led project management of Apache Hive at Hortonworks through their IPO. He headed product management & marketing for a NewSQL database startup. He continues to actively develop compiler & database technologies in his quest to create data tools “that don’t suck”. His engineering roles include developing a NewSQL database, building CUDA compiler at NVIDIA as a founding engineer, & as a compiler engineer working on Microsoft Visual Studio.