Amandeep founded Okera in 2016 with his co-founder Nong Li. While supporting customer initiatives at Cloudera and involved in product development at AWS, Amandeep witnessed first-hand the challenges companies faced in adopting big data and cloud technologies. This experience, along with the goal to empower people and businesses through easy data access, led him to start Okera.

Amandeep is also the co-author of HBase in Action, a book on building applications on HBase. He is passionate about distributed systems, big data, and helping customers get value out of new technology.

Itay joined Okera in early 2019 to lead the product development efforts and build a world-class engineering team. Previously, Itay worked for Splunk in Seattle where he helped to establish and lead the first remote development office growing the team by more than 15x since 2011. At Splunk, he served as both the engineering and site lead for the Seattle office while also personally contributing and leading several major initiatives. These initiatives include work across all parts of Splunk Enterprise, the industry-leading operational intelligence tool, and a new product offering for Splunk's future cloud initiative.

Prior to Splunk, Itay worked as an engineer at Microsoft working on Midori, the next-generation operating system incubated out of Microsoft Research. Itay has an M.S. from University of Washington and a B.S. from Brown University, both in Computer Science.

Ethan Kurzweil is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where he invests in developer platforms and consumer tech startups. Ethan has served on the board of leading platform companies including Intercom, PagerDuty, Periscope Data, Applitools, Twitch (acq. by Amazon), and Periscope (acq. by Twitter) and was actively involved in Bessemer’s investments in public companies Twilio and Sendgrid.