Building a Startup Within a Startup: Staying Ahead by Operationalizing a Culture of Innovation

Naveen is the Vice President of Product and Engineering at TetraScience, a Scientific Data Cloud company with a mission to accelerate scientific discovery, improve and extend human life. Before TetraScience, he spent almost 2 decades building observability products for various domains. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Engineering at AppDynamics which had a very successful exit. At AppD, he led a startup focussed on End-User Monitoring and Business Analytics. He had helped grow the business to 30x in revenue in partnership with the executive team. Naveen is passionate about working with data and unlocking valuable insights, lately, he has been experimenting with the application of AI / ML techniques to accelerate the outcomes. He is a certified USA swimming official and volunteers his time to officiating at the sanctioned meets when he is not wrangling with the data.

Tony is the Founder & CEO of Propel, an AI engineering agent that integrates into your team’s workflows to automate engineering tasks and elevate developer productivity.

Before Propel, Tony served as the VP of Engineering at Rippling, where he led the development of the company's Platform and HR products. As a seasoned entrepreneur, Tony was also the founder and CTO of a YC-backed startup and held key engineering roles at Periscope, TellApart, and Twitter.