Meet Pinecone’s New VP of Engineering, Dr. Ram Sriharsha

Pinecone has appointed Dr. Ram Sriharsha as its new VP of Engineering, bringing his extensive experience from Yahoo, Databricks, and Splunk to the rapidly growing company. Dr. Sriharsha, who has a strong background in engineering and product management, chose Pinecone for its innovative work on semantic search over vector embeddings, which he believes is an unsolved problem with significant potential for new use cases in unstructured data. Pinecone's cutting-edge technology and agile environment allow for quick advancements and personal involvement in the product development process, which Dr. Sriharsha found lacking in larger companies. Committed to building the world's best vector database using Rust, he emphasizes the importance of reducing memory usage to save costs for customers. Dr. Sriharsha is focused on assembling a team passionate about transforming search with machine learning and values an open culture and teamwork. Pinecone is also making efforts to foster diversity and inclusivity as it expands, aiming to attract and retain talented individuals who are excited about contributing to groundbreaking database innovations.