Darshan is responsible for product and go-to-market strategies for key differentiated offerings of DataStax Inc. In addition, he incubates, collaborates, and contributes to industry-wide thought leadership w.r.to strategic impact of disruptive technologies for the enterprise infrastructure market. He has more than 15 years of product leadership experience across industries as diverse as finance, internet, and telecommunications. During this time, Darshan has brought to market, distributed systems and machine learning based products, impacting millions of consumers and billions of transactions per day. Before joining DataStax Inc., Darshan held product and engineering leadership roles at yp.com, DE Shaw, Yahoo, and most recently at Openwave Messaging. Darshan earned his master of science degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.