Ajay Kulkarni, TigerData CEO on Postgres, AI Agents and Data Infra

Ajay Kulkarni is the co-founder and CEO of TigerData, the company behind TimescaleDB and a high-performance PostgreSQL platform for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers.AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~He co-founded Timescale in 2017 and has since helped grow the company to more than 2,000 customers and a 200-person fully remote team. TigerData has raised $180 million and serves organizations including Mistral, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Toyota, NASA, and Schneider Electric. Ajay previously studied computer science at MIT and worked at early-stage startups, focusing on infrastructure, developer products, and AI-augmented engineering.Topics: How PostgreSQL is evolving to support real-time analytics, transactional workloads, and AI agents on a unified data infrastructure Building TigerData from Timescale into a company serving 2,000+ customers, with a 200-person team and $180 million raised How AI agents are changing software development, data infrastructure, and the interfaces developers use to build the next generation of applications #ArtificialIntelligence #PostgreSQL #AIInfrastructure #Database #AIEngineering