Our people are caring, committed, and collaborative. We value critical thinking, encourage curiosity, and seek every opportunity to learn from one another while redefining the limits of data science, finance, and virtual office fun.
Tate SochaDirector of Business Development
Primary Responsibilities: Creating and implementing comprehensive partnership strategies with leading venture capital and private equity firms.
Key Skill: Curiosity
Fantasy WFH Location: Palm Desert with a vegetable greenhouse
Most-Used Emoji: 🤙
Mike Van GenderenVP of Sales
Primary Responsibilities: Making it easy for firms to say 'Yes' to Cyndx as a solution to their day-to-day and strategic challenges.
Key Skills: Empathy and a sense of humor
Hidden Talent: Darts
Best Part of His Work: Mentoring junior sales professionals
Bridget ValdemiraVP of Finance
Primary Responsibilities: All things accounting and finance related!
Day-Off Agenda: Going to the beach with my family
Guilty Pleasures: Wine and chocolate
Best Part of Her Work: Definitely the people!
Christopher RivasQuality Assurance Tester
Primary Responsibilities: Making sure our users are gaining optimal experience with our product and tools
Key Skills: Perseverance; problem-solving
Hobbies: Sports, working out, hiking
Best Part of His Work: Constantly learning about backend/frontend development and my peers!
Ethan ChenAI Engineer
Primary Responsibilities: Build out functionality and user interface for the Cyndx platform
Key Skills: Commitment to self-improvement; songwriting
Favorite Food: Anything made by Wendy
Best Part of His Work: The team and the new things I can learn from them every day
Shubham PawarML Research Engineer
Primary Responsibilities: Maintaining and automating machine learning pipelines
Key Skill: Positive outlook
Hobbies: Estoy aprendiendo español
Best Part of His Work: Collaboration among teams; learning new things everyday
Shadi RamadanPlatform Engineering Managerr
Primary Responsibilities: Running the Platform team --- frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
Guilty Pleasures: Cheese boards and LU Petit Ecolier cookies
Out-of-Office Agenda: Taking the boat out to go fishing or hiking!
Best Part of His Work: Working with colleagues I can call my friends.
Ruben Contreras NuñezSenior Software Engineer
Primary Responsibilities: Helping add new features to the Cyndx Platform!
Key Skill: Determination
Fantasy WFH Location: Earth in the Star Trek Universe
Best Part of His Work: Leveraging new technologies to create value in the financial domain.
Paul LeeData Analyst
Primary Responsibilities: Leveraging cloud based tools to transform data to find impactful insights
Key Skills: Kindness; keeping a very open mind
Out-of-Office Agenda: Eat, bike, friends and drinks
Best Part of His Work: Family atmosphere
Alexander SingletonAnalytics Engineer
Primary Responsibilities: Build new data into the platform, and develop analytics for exciting new features
Hobbies: Acoustic guitar
Hidden Talent: Translating the Old English language; making his own mead (honey wine)
Best Part of His Work: Learning how to make a world-class fintech platform better
Prithvi KumarDirector of Business Development
Primary Responsibilities: Creating and implementing comprehensive partnership strategies with leading global investment banks, venture capital and private equity firms
Hobbies: Reading, traveling, and music
Hidden Talent: Keeping a beat
Where He Spends a Day Off: In the recording studio
Colleen GardnerMarketing Associate
Primary Responsibilities: Helping Sales/Marketing communicate the value of an incredible product
Key Skill: Learning new things
Out-of-Office Agenda: Skiing, hiking, spending several hours curled up with a book
Best Part of Her Work: Coworkers who are always willing to answer share their knowledge or answer questions! Thank you!
Jim McVeighCEO
Primary Responsibilities: Providing our people with the opportunity to excel
Key Skill: Determination
Out-of-Office Agenda: Golfing / Sailing
Best Part of His Work: Working with amazingly talented people
Kyle ChanSoftware Engineer
Primary Responsibilities: Build out functionality and user interface for the Cyndx platform
Productivity Hack: Headphones and Spotify playlists
Favorite Food: Everything 🙂
Best Part of His Work: Enabling users to do more
Madhu ShreeProduct Design Lead
Primary Responsibilities:
Key Skills: Persistence and grit; visualizing concepts
Guilty Pleasure: Jalapeno-flavored chips
Best Part of Her Work: Solving user problems with design and our wonderful team
Daniel ElkinSenior Data Analyst
Primary Responsibilities: Develop analytics pipelines to aggregate and structure data, design and implement data structures, develop the analytics embedded directly into our platform.
Favorite Food: Chicken Pad Thai
Hobbies: Hiking and skiing and spending time outdoors
Best Part of His Work: Working with colleagues across teams to leverage and understand our data.
Prudhvi DachapallySenior AI Research Scientist
Primary Responsibilities: Building models to fill in the gaps for the data we don’t have, staying up-to-date on the current research, and thinking of new ideas to improve our products.
Key Skill: Sense of humor
Guilty Pleasures: Watching disaster films like Volcano and 2012 over and over again
Best Part of His Work: I get to work with amazing people who don't let my brain get bored.
Wendy CanadyAccount Executive
Primary Responsibilities: Our customers' satisfaction, from the trial-to-conversion stage to day-to-day support issues and making sure they want to renew.
Most-Used Emoji: 😂
Unique Skills: Growing chili peppers
Best Part of Her Work: Hands down, the people. It's a privilege to work with this team.
Michael BusheySenior DevOps Engineer
Primary Responsibilities: Make it easy for our developers to focus on their code and not be distracted by outside technical issues.
Most-Used Emoji: 
Accomplishments: Founded a company, Bushey Virtual Construction, that became one of the largest OEM resellers of DEC Alpha servers.
Hobbies: Playing guitar, working with 3D printers and microcontrollers
Sebastian OkserChief Technology Officer
Primary Responsibilities: Everything engineering related
Key Skill: Multi-tasking, determination
Guilty Pleasures: McDonalds fries, sausage biscuits and fish fillets, preferably in one meal
Best Part of His Work: The people and their ideas
Elise McVeighCAO
Primary Responsibilities: All facility, personnel, and administrative issues across the firm
Favorite Food: Italian
Fantasy WFH Location: St. Barth
Best Part of Her Work: THE PEOPLE....Incredibly smart team!!
