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Ganesh Datta

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Cofounder & CTO at Cortex
📍 San Diego, California, United States

Ganesh Datta is the Cofounder and CTO of Cortex, an internal developer portal backed by Sequoia and YCombinator. He leads the companys focus on helping engineering teams adopt AI and enhance software quality. With a background as a Principal Software Engineer, he specializes in platform engineering and developer productivity.

He is a graduate of UC San Diego with a BS in Computer Science. During his time at university, he demonstrated an early entrepreneurial drive by winning an audience choice award for a business pitch competition. He frequently speaks on podcasts about engineering excellence and software reliability.

Unique fact: The inspiration for starting Cortex came from personal pain points he experienced while scaling microservices from one to over 100 in a previous role.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Cofounder & CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Diego, California, United States
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Engineering Excellence
He defines this as aligning engineering practices with business outcomes and frequently discusses how to achieve it on podcasts and in articles.
Developer Experience
He advocates for treating internal platforms as products and creating tools that "spark joy" for developers to improve productivity and quality of life.
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Career

Work history

11-2019
Cofounder & CTO
Cortex
8-2019 - 11-2019
Principal Software Engineer
Mission Lane
1-2019 - 8-2019
Senior Software Engineer
Mission Lane
3-2018 - 1-2019
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead
LendUp
4-2017 - 3-2018
Software Engineer
LendUp
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Education
2013 - 2016
BS Computer Science
UC San Diego
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