Leadership Team
Experienced operators from the world's leading data infrastructure companies.
Jason Corkill
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Jason brings over a decade of experience in distributed systems and real-time data infrastructure. Prior to founding Rapidata, he led platform engineering at scale, designing streaming architectures that processed trillions of events annually. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and is based in New York City.
Marcus Chen
Senior Data Engineer & Co-Founder
Marcus is one of the foremost experts in Apache Kafka and Apache Flink, having built and operated mission-critical streaming platforms for financial services organizations. He led the design of Rapidata's core stream processing engine and owns the technical architecture of the data pipeline orchestration layer. Marcus holds an M.S. in Computer Science from MIT.
Sofia Reynolds
Head of Product
Sofia joined Rapidata from a senior product management role at a leading business intelligence company, where she owned the enterprise self-serve analytics product used by over 2,000 organizations worldwide. She brings a deep customer-centric perspective to Rapidata's platform roadmap, focusing on making complex data infrastructure accessible to every member of a data team. Sofia holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Life at Rapidata
We are a small, senior team with a shared obsession: making real-time data infrastructure reliable, accessible, and fast.
Engineering-Led
Every major product decision is driven by technical rigor. Our engineers are deeply involved in product roadmap and customer conversations — because understanding the problem is half the solution.
Remote-Friendly
Our team is distributed across New York, San Francisco, and London. We work asynchronously by default and invest in excellent documentation to keep everyone aligned regardless of time zone.
Continuous Learning
We allocate 20% of every engineer's time to learning, conference attendance, and open-source contribution. Our team regularly publishes research on distributed systems and data engineering.
We are hiring
We are building a world-class data infrastructure company and are looking for exceptional engineers, data scientists, and product thinkers to join us. If you are passionate about real-time systems at scale, we would love to hear from you.
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