Sheel Choksi is a solutions architect at Ascend.io, the data engineering company. Sheel started his career as a software engineer at agile software development consulting firm Pivotal Labs (acquired by VMware). He later joined Mayvenn, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup focused on creating the future of salon retail, as a software engineer and moved on to become lead engineer and then senior director of operations, where he oversaw the engineering, product, and data analytics teams.