VG
Vivek Gopalan
Investing & Building at 8VC
VG
Vivek Gopalan
Investing & Building at 8VC
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investing & Building
2020 - Current
Focus on enterprise data & software infrastructure and B2B SaaS.
Software Engineer
2020 - 2020
Distributed SQL on the cloud. Implemented Tablegroups - configurable colocated partitioning.
Software Engineer
2019 - 2019
Sales Intelligence Machine Learning Team at Bloomberg. Built and deployed models (& model pipelines) from end-to-end. Worked on some bandit feedback problems.
Undergraduate Developer
2018 - 2019
Lead developer for the Pauli Murray Digiography Project. Topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and NER. Trying to solve graph generation problems (tying entities to topics & sentiment).
Summer Research Intern
2018 - 2018
Working with Professor Ruzica Piskac to develop a functionally reactive network controller. Learned & forgot P4, and fell out of love with Haskell.
Engineering Intern
2016 - 2017
Built automations and counted cars & trucks. Mostly fun with a bit of VBA chaos sprinkled in.