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Rohit Shekhar

Go-getter · DISC type d
Founder and CEO at Chiron
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Rohit is a distributed systems architect turned founder and CEO of Chiron. With experience at Nutanix, Rubrik, and Confluent, he specializes in deep systems and data infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as technically sharp with great initiative and a deep understanding of distributed storage, backed by over 10 patents.

He holds more than 10 patents for innovations in distributed data management, including application-aware snapshots and distributed storage reservation.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Founder and CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Rohit shows up

Challenger
Direct & Candid
Fast-Paced

They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They care equally about the product and its potential impact. They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles.

Priorities

Topics Rohit cares about

Deterministic Observability
He is building his company, Chiron, to replace probabilistic 'guessing' in system monitoring with causal analysis and deterministic 'knowing' to eliminate telemetry noise.
Distributed Data Systems
His career has focused on building the 'plumbing' of the modern data stack, from scale-out architecture at Datos IO to highly scalable storage at Confluent.
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Career

Work history

9-2024
Founder and CEO
Chiron
2-2023 - 1-2024
Architect and Engineering Head
ZettaBlock
10-2019 - 2-2023
Principal Engineer
Confluent (IPO - CFLT)
8-2016 - 10-2019
Principal Software Engineer
Salesforce
5-2015 - 8-2016
Technical Director
Datos IO, Inc. (Acquired by Rubrik).
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Education
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BHU
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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