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Joseph Sciarrino

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Co-founder & CEO at Hydra (YC W22)
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Joseph is the Co-founder and CEO of Hydra, an open-source data warehouse built on Postgres. His expertise in scalable databases was developed through roles at Microsofts Azure Data team and Salesforces Heroku. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wake Forest University, which he credits for his cross-disciplinary approach as a founder.

Outside of work, Joseph is an avid runner, hiker, and tennis player living in San Francisco with his dog, Titus. He is a lifelong violinist, having played in symphonies and string quartets. He is also a connoisseur of pizza, with standards set high from his time living in New York City.

Unique fact: Joseph used to be a street performer and still keeps his old street-performers license in his violin case.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Co-founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Open-Source Databases
He is the co-founder of Hydra, an open-source data warehouse built on Postgres, and has a career focused on open-source database technology at Microsoft and Citus Data.
Early-Stage Startups
As a YC W22 founder and winner of multiple university entrepreneurship awards, he is deeply involved in the startup ecosystem and has spoken to students about his entrepreneurial path.
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Career

Work history

1-2022
Co-founder & CEO
Hydra (YC W22)
1-2019 - 12-2021
Senior Program Manager, Azure Data
Microsoft
3-2018 - 1-2019
Director of Sales, Citus Data
Microsoft
11-2014 - 3-2018
Senior Account Executive, Heroku at Salesforce.com
Salesforce
6-2014 - 10-2014
Sales Development
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Education
2008 - 2012
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Wake Forest University
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Y Combinator
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