Chief Data Architect, Uber

As chief data architect at Uber, M. C. Srivas worries about all data issues from trips, riders and partners, and pricing to analytics, self-driving cars, security, and data-center planning. Previously, M. C. was CTO and founder of MapR Technologies, a top Hadoop distribution; worked on search at Google, developing and running the core search engine that powered many of Google’s special verticals like ads, maps, and shopping; was chief architect at Spinnaker Networks (now Netapp), which formed the basis of Netapp’s flagship NAS products; and ran the Andrew File System team at Transarc, which was acquired by IBM. M. C. holds an MS from the University of Delaware and a BTech from IIT