Leandro, based in London, co-founded XONAI (with Brock Doiron) with the mission to remove fundamental bottlenecks present in very resource-intensive software. He designed and implemented the underlying compiler and execution engine, which, when integrated with big data analytics platforms, delivers market-leading performance across a wide range of standardised benchmarks. Prior to XONAI, Leandro worked from 3-person startups to large startups alike, and gets very easily bored if not being challenged.

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Based in Porto, Filipe is a software engineer deeply interested in logical problems. His current focus is performance engineering from research and analysis to implementation and evaluation of XONAI's solutions. He enjoys seeing computers bending to his will using clever optimizations. Filipe’s experience also include building data models for real-time systems and data pipelines using distributed scalable solutions.

Phil worked in a number of Fortune 500 companies in San Francisco, starting at eBay as a data engineer working in key customer product recommendation, and then joining the Siri team at Apple (job details cannot be disclosed). Towards 2017, Phil decided to leave the corporate world to do pioneering work at early startups and joined an undisclosed Fintech startup for a year and half, building data pipelines extracting trading signals to perform stock market predictions. Then, he moved towards enterprise data platforms for the cloud and joined Streamhub, a video analytics startup building a one-stop platform to provide audience and content insights for media companies. Towards the end of 2021, Phil joined XONAI as a Lead Data Engineer to contribute to the integration of our technology into data processing engines such as Apache Spark.

Turkey is a passionate compiler engineer with a Ph.D. in high-performance computing. He has worked in a variety of areas, including distributed data processing, static/dynamic analysis, auto-parallel refactoring, and programming languages. Turkey's expertise extends to contributing to high-scale cloud infrastructure with large workloads on AWS. Beyond his professional pursuits, he finds joy in traveling and playing football. Turkey believes that XONAI presents an exciting opportunity to advance the state of the art in computing acceleration. He is thrilled to be a part of the team and is eager to play a pivotal role in building the future of technology with XONAI.

Fabio Anderegg is a software engineer with a diverse background in computer science domains and a strong entrepreneurial understanding. Prior to joining XONAI as a compiler engineer, Fabio was a CTO at a digital marketing startup, and during his professional experience he developed strong understanding of web development and down to the hardware by learning novel compiler technologies. Fabio led a complex and critical project at Kythera AI from inception to the first release, including helping to secure and support the first few customers, and was also a member of the senior management team inputting on company wide issues and strategy.

Darina is a highly motivated individual with a passion for people and technology. She has been part of several successful start-ups with focus on big data cloud and distributed computing. Darina brings a wealth of experience with her and is a key resource to help build the expansion of the XONAI team. Her current focus is to create awareness about the benefits provided by the XONAI Spark optimiser.