Vishal Srivastava is an experienced engineering leader with an impressive tenure working in a variety of industries. With a strong background in data engineering, data science, and large-scale machine learning systems, Vishal has managed and built teams from scratch, contributed to the development, design, and architecture of impressive, widely utilized systems, and has demonstrated his ability to lead successful organizations. Vishal's previous roles include serving as the SVP, Marcus at Goldman Sachs, Advisor/Investor with various startups, Associate member/Judge/Honoree at The Webby Awards, and member/director of influential organizations including the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE. Additionally, Vishal's professional experience includes roles as Director of Engineering - Data Science at Clarity Money, Data Platform & Engineering at About.com, Principal - Search and Data Science at Bluefly, Senior Analyst at Barclays Investment Bank, Graduate Research Assistant at IDS lab @ Columbia University, Teaching Assistant - Cloud Computing at Columbia University in the City of New York, and Senior Software Engineer at IBM. Vishal is a graduate of Columbia University in the City of New York, where he earned his Master of Science, Computer Science. Prior to that, he obtained his Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology at Cochin University of Science and Technology.