# Suresh Srinivas

> Suresh Srinivas is the Co-Founder and CEO of Collate and the creator of OpenMetadata, an open-source data intelligence platform. A longtime figure in the big-data world, he was an early Apache Hadoop developer and HDFS committer at Yahoo, co-founded Hortonworks, and served as Chief Architect for data at Uber before building Collate to help enterprises make their data usable, trustworthy, and well-governed.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Collate
- **Organizations:** Collate, OpenMetadata, Apache Software Foundation, Uber, Hortonworks, Yahoo, Sylantro Systems
- **From:** India
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK / KREC)
- **Known for:** Early developer, committer, and PMC member of Apache Hadoop (HDFS) since 2008., Co-founded Hortonworks, a pioneer in enterprise open-source data technology., Served as Chief Architect for Uber's Data Platform through the company's global scaling.

## Career timeline

- **1999** — Joined Sylantro Systems as a Senior Software Engineer, building IP telephony services with C++, Java, and in-memory databases.
- **2005** — Became Director of Engineering at Sylantro Systems.
- **2008** — Began contributing to Apache Hadoop at Yahoo, focusing on HDFS; became a committer and PMC member at the Apache Software Foundation.
- **2011** — Co-founded Hortonworks as a founding engineer and VP of Engineering to commercialize Hadoop for enterprises.
- **2018** — Joined Uber as Chief Architect for the Data Platform, scaling data systems through global growth.
- **2021** — Founded OpenMetadata, an open-source metadata and data intelligence platform, and co-founded Collate.
- **2025** — Collate raised a $10M Series A led by Venrock; OpenMetadata surpassed 9,800 community members.

## Achievements

- Early developer, committer, and PMC member of Apache Hadoop (HDFS) since 2008.
- Co-founded Hortonworks, a pioneer in enterprise open-source data technology.
- Served as Chief Architect for Uber's Data Platform through the company's global scaling.
- Created OpenMetadata, described as one of the fastest-growing open-source data intelligence projects, with 9,800+ community members.
- Co-founded and leads Collate, which raised a $10M Series A in 2025 with 350% year-over-year ARR growth.
- OpenMetadata received a $10,000 Bloomberg FOSS Contributor Fund grant.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Collate raised a $10M Series A led by Venrock, with Unusual Ventures and Karman Ventures participating, to build its agentic data intelligence platform.
- **2025-07** — OpenMetadata surpassed 9,800 community members and Collate reported over 350% year-over-year ARR growth.

## Links

- Website: https://getcollate.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sureshsri/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/suresh_m_s
- GitHub: https://github.com/sureshms

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Last updated: 2026-07-24