Darshan is the Founder and CPO of Isima. He has spent the last two decades in silicon valley, building frontier products using Applied ML, distributed systems, and open API principles. Before Isima, he was Head of Products at DataStax and Openwave Messaging where he sold solutions to telcos and fortune 1000 enterprises. He spent a decade in engineering roles including Yahoo where he deployed ML models in production impacting multi-billion revenues – before the words ’Big-Data’, ‘Data Science’, existed. He has a Masters in Software Engineering Management from CMU.