20-year product veteran brings expertise in both startups and larger companies as Alluxio’s growth accelerates
SAN MATEO, CA – May 25, 2022 - Alluxio, the developer of the open source data orchestration platform for data driven workloads such as large-scale analytics and AI/ML, today announced the appointment of Sridhar Venkatesh to the new position of SVP of product reporting to Alluxio Founder and CEO, Haoyuan (HY) Li. He will lead product management and product marketing efforts as demand for scaling distributed AI and machine learning workloads in the cloud accelerates.
“Sridhar joins Alluxio at an important inflection point where businesses around the globe are leveraging large scale analytics and AI/ML to achieve competitive advantage,” said Li.“In addition to extensive data infrastructure and AI/ML expertise, Sridhar has demonstrated a proven ability to build successful product teams at fast-growing companies and implement the latest processes with larger teams to deliver sustained performance. That blend will be invaluable as we continue to build out our vision adding new innovations and continuing to scale our data orchestration platform to meet growing market demand.”
Sridhar brings over 20 years of product experience in both startups as well as larger companies.Most recently, he was VP Product at Avalara where he was responsible for their content business, data infrastructure and AI/ML platform. He joined Avalara through their acquisition of Indix, a startup he co-founded to build a big data platform for product information.Prior to Indix, Sridhar served as CEO of CARC, an Alcatel joint-venture focused on expanding broadband penetration across India and other developing countries. Earlier, Sridhar led a product team at Cerent, one of Cisco’s largest acquisitions, and co-founded Caymas, an enterprise security startup sold to Citrix. He holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering from MIT and started his career working on GM’s electrical vehicle in the early 90s.
“It’s an exciting time to be joining the team and advancing the already extensive use cases of data orchestration,” said Venkatesh. “The solution is especially relevant to data teams challenged by the distributed complexities of modern data infrastructures today.”
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About Alluxio
Alluxio is a leading provider of accelerated data access platforms for AI workloads. Alluxio’s distributed caching layer accelerates AI and data-intensive workloads by enabling high-speed data access across diverse storage systems. By creating a global namespace, Alluxio unifies data from multiple sources—on-premises and in the cloud—into a single, logical view, eliminating the need for data duplication or complex data movement.
Designed for scalability and performance, Alluxio brings data closer to compute frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Spark, significantly reducing I/O bottlenecks and latency. Its intelligent caching, data locality optimization, and seamless integration with modern data platforms make it a powerful solution for teams building and scaling AI pipelines across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Backed by leading investors, Alluxio powers technology, internet, financial services, and telecom companies, including 9 out of the top 10 internet companies globally. To learn more, visit www.alluxio.io.
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