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Ashish Thusoo

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Founder & CEO at CurieTech AI
📍 San Jose, California, United States

A serial entrepreneur and tech pioneer, Ashish Thusoo is the Founder & CEO of CurieTech AI. He previously co-founded Qubole, pioneered the cloud data lake, and co-created Apache Hive at Facebook. An alumnus of IIT Delhi and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his expertise spans AI agents, big data, and cloud platforms.

While at Facebook, Ashish co-created Apache Hive, the open-source project that brought SQL to Hadoop and was pivotal in democratizing access to big data analytics.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Jose, California, United States
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Priorities

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AI-driven Integration
His current venture, CurieTech AI, builds AI agents to automate and accelerate IT integration tasks, particularly for platforms like MuleSoft.
Tech Entrepreneurship
Having co-founded two major companies, Qubole and CurieTech AI, he often speaks on podcasts about his journey and learnings in building technology businesses.
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Career

Work history

7-2023
Founder & CEO
CurieTech AI
3-2021 - 6-2023
GM AI/ML - SageMaker low-code/no-code, EdgeML, HealthAI, Marketing Intelligence, Fraud Detector
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
9-2011 - 10-2020
Co-founder/CEO
Qubole
11-2008 - 9-2014
Hadoop Hive Committer, PMC member and ASF member
The Apache Software Foundation
11-2008 - 11-2009
Hadoop Hive Project Lead
The Apache Software Foundation
In the press

Media appearances

ET in the Valley: Ashish Thusoo, Co‑founder and CEO, CurieTech AI. Featured in Economic Times (ET) – Morning Brief Podcast
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Education
1996 - 1997
M.S.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992 - 1996
B. Tech.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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