Vinay Hiremath is an accomplished technologist and entrepreneur, known for his expertise in building high-performance internet technologies. He graduated with a degree in Materials Science and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Vinay is the Co-founder, CTO, and VP People at Loom, a company that provides video messaging services for businesses. Vinay's prior experience includes working as a member of the technical staff at Upthere, a software engineering role at Backplane, and a software engineering internship at Facebook. Vinay began his entrepreneurial journey with Jminee, where he was a co-founder. Over the years, Vinay has nurtured an interest in building things that go fast on the internet.