# Amar Arsikere

> Amar Arsikere is a Palo Alto-based technology founder and engineering executive. After building large-scale data systems at Google and Zynga, he co-founded Infoworks in 2014, served as CEO, and became chief product officer and CTO in 2019. Uniphore announced its acquisition of Infoworks in December 2024. He is listed as Uniphore’s head of platform engineering and as an advisor to Alumable.

- **Role:** Head of Platform Engineering at Uniphore
- **Organizations:** Infoworks by Uniphore, Uniphore, Google, Zynga, Alumable
- **Education:** M.S., Iowa State University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Infoworks and led it as CEO before taking product and technology leadership roles., Built large-scale data infrastructure at Google and Zynga., Recipient of the IEC InfoVision award, Jars Top 25 award and Teradyne Star award, according to his published biography.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2014** — Built data warehousing on Bigtable at Google and large-scale database infrastructure at Zynga.
- **2012** — Listed with Karthik Viswanathan for a Zynga workshop on building mobile social games at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference.
- **2014** — Co-founded Infoworks with Buno Pati.
- **2015** — As CEO, announced a $5 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners.
- **2019** — Moved from CEO to chief product officer and CTO; Buno Pati became CEO.
- **2022** — Infoworks launched Replicator 4.0 for automated Hadoop-to-cloud migration.
- **2024** — Infoworks AI launched in June; Uniphore announced acquisition of Infoworks in December.
- **2025** — Listed as joining Uniphore as head of platform engineering.
- **2026** — Named as instructor for a February 27 live AI application workshop.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Infoworks and led it as CEO before taking product and technology leadership roles.
- Built large-scale data infrastructure at Google and Zynga.
- Recipient of the IEC InfoVision award, Jars Top 25 award and Teradyne Star award, according to his published biography.
- Holds several patents in software and internet technologies, according to conference and professional biographies.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — An Eventbrite listing advertised Arsikere as the instructor for a February 27 three-hour online AI application workshop; this establishes the scheduled event, not attendance or completion.
- **2025-02** — Public professional directories list him as head of platform engineering at Uniphore from February 2025.
- **2024-12** — Uniphore announced it was acquiring Infoworks; Arsikere publicly welcomed joining Umesh Sachdev and the Uniphore team.
- **2024-06** — Infoworks announced Infoworks AI with a natural-language interface for data exploration, preparation and integration.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amar500
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/amar500

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Last updated: 2026-10-22