Ram Sriharsha is the Chief Technology Officer at Pinecone, a company that offers a fully managed vector database for vector search in production applications. Ram brings a wealth of experience from companies like Apache Software Foundation, Splunk, and Databricks, where Ram has held various leadership roles in engineering, machine learning, and product management. With a background in Electronics and a PhD in Physics, Ram has also worked as an Architect at Hortonworks and as a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo, focusing on algorithms, systems, and data analytics. Additionally, Ram has experience in software development and automation at companies like Goldman Sachs and AgileIT.