Altimate AI
Dana Van Aken currently serves as the Head of Research at Altimate AI since February 2025. Previously, Dana was Co-Founder and CTO of OtterTune from May 2020 to November 2024. Academic experience includes a role as a Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University from September 2014 to February 2021 and internships with Microsoft Research and Google's Infrastructure Team. Dana holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington, and a B.A. in Business Finance from Western Washington University.
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Altimate AI
We dream of the perfect data world, and we are on a quest to turn that dream into a reality. Our flagship product, DataPilot is an AI teammate for data teams to accelerate development workflows, reduce operational costs, and improve data governance. It’s a collection of AI agents - natively integrated into the favorite tools of data teams - to generate data documentation, data quality tests, query explanations, and much more. We have been fortunate to have bleeding-edge tech companies as our customers who believe in our dream and work closely with us to add more magic to the DataPilot.