# Davit Buniatyan

> Davit Buniatyan is the founding CEO of Activeloop, the company behind Deep Lake. Born and raised in Yerevan, he studied computer science at UCL, entered Princeton’s doctoral program in 2016, and left to pursue the company that joined Y Combinator in summer 2018. His work spans distributed computing, multimodal data infrastructure and memory for coding agents.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Activeloop
- **Organizations:** Activeloop, Snark AI (former company name), Y Combinator, Princeton University, University College London
- **From:** Yerevan, Armenia
- **Education:** International Baccalaureate, Quantum College, Yerevan, BSc in Computer Science, University College London, Doctoral study in Computer Science; left without completing the PhD, Princeton University
- **Known for:** Gordon Wu Fellowship, Princeton University, 2016., AWS Machine Learning Research Award recipient, according to his Activeloop and MLconf biographies., UCL Computer Science App Award, May 2014, listed on LinkedIn.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Completed Quantum College’s IB program and began undergraduate study at UCL.
- **2014** — Worked on Newsly.
- **2016** — Entered Princeton with the Gordon Wu Fellowship.
- **2017** — Contributed to Princeton’s Pixie socialbot for the Alexa Prize.
- **2018** — Co-founded Snark AI, joined YC Summer 2018 and moved to the Bay Area; identified as CTO in SmartGateVC’s December announcement.
- **2019** — Published Hyper: Distributed Cloud Processing for Large-Scale Deep Learning Tasks.
- **2020** — Activeloop open-sourced Hub.
- **2022** — Introduced the Deep Lake name and product direction in September.
- **2024** — Activeloop announced an $11 million Series A on March 26.
- **2026** — Published work on autonomous software development, agent data environments and Hivemind.

## Achievements

- Gordon Wu Fellowship, Princeton University, 2016.
- AWS Machine Learning Research Award recipient, according to his Activeloop and MLconf biographies.
- UCL Computer Science App Award, May 2014, listed on LinkedIn.
- Droidcon London Hackathon overall winner, 2013, listed on LinkedIn.
- Co-author of the 2017 Pixie socialbot paper.
- Led Activeloop through its announced $11 million Series A in March 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Published a LinkedIn article about shared coding-agent memory with Hivemind on April 13.
- **2026-03** — Published a LinkedIn article about data environments for agents on March 18.
- **2026-02** — Published a LinkedIn account of a fifteen-hour autonomous software-development experiment on February 2; performance and cost figures were self-reported.

## Links

- Website: https://loqsh.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbuniatyan
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/DBuniatyan
- GitHub: https://github.com/davidbuniat
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbuniatyan/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.buniatyan

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