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Tallat M. Shafaat

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Founder and CEO at Vectara
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Tallat M. Shafaat is the Founder and CEO of Vectara, with deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems. His career includes a significant tenure at Google as a Senior Software Engineer working on Search and Ads infrastructure. He holds a Ph. D. in Distributed Systems from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, underpinning his technical leadership.

He built a scalable, atomic, and partition-tolerant key-value store in a completely decentralized setting during his Ph. D.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Founder and CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Priorities

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Distributed Systems
His entire career, from his Ph. D. to Google and now Vectara, is centered on building fault-tolerant, large-scale distributed systems.
Enterprise AI Security
Strongly advocates for on-prem AI solutions that protect enterprise IP and prevent data leakage, a core value proposition of Vectara.
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Career

Work history

2-2020
Founder and CEO
Vectara
11-2013 - 1-2020
Senior Software Engineer
Google
2-2013 - 4-2013
Research Intern
Microsoft Research, Redmond
6-2012 - 9-2012
Research Intern
Microsoft Research, Redmond
8-2011 - 10-2011
Software Engineer - Intern
VMware Inc.
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Media appearances

From Co‑founding $5.3B Cloudera to Vectara: Helping Developers Build Trusted AI Assistants for Apps Fast!. Featured in MatchRelevant Podcast
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Vectara CEO and Head of Product Marketing on Scaling AI Enterprise Businesses. Featured in Products That Count
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Education
2007 - 2012
Ph.D
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2004 - 2006
MS
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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