With Iris, I’ve been focused on making warehouse data feel conversational and immediately actionable for business users. If you’re curious about building that kind of workflow, or something else entirely, I’m glad to explore it.
About
Amit is Co-Founder and CEO of Iris in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before Iris, he co-founded THE YES, an AI-powered shopping platform that raised over $30M from Forerunner Ventures, True Ventures, NEA, Comcast Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures, and was acquired by Pinterest. Earlier he was an EIR at Bain Capital Ventures and CTO/VP Engineering at BloomReach, leading the engineering teams behind ML-based systems for organic and site search.
Before BloomReach, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Groupon (early engineer at the Silicon Valley dev center), an Engineering Manager at Google working on ads, and Principal Development Lead at Microsoft on MSN web search. He started his career at Inktomi as a Staff Engineer on traffic server and FastForward media streaming. He holds an MS in CS from the University of Washington and a B.Tech in CS from IIT Delhi.