# Swaroop Jagadish

> Swaroop Jagadish is the co-founder and CEO of DataHub, the company commercializing the open-source metadata platform created at LinkedIn. Previously head of Data Platform and Search Infrastructure at Airbnb, he led teams responsible for Dataportal and work on Apache Airflow, Apache Superset, knowledge graphs, search infrastructure, and cloud cost efficiency. His current work focuses on enterprise context for people and AI agents.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at DataHub
- **Organizations:** DataHub (formerly Acryl Data), Airbnb, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Apache Helix
- **Education:** M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, B.E. in Computer Science, B. M. S. College of Engineering
- **Known for:** Led Airbnb teams that built Dataportal and worked on Apache Airflow and Apache Superset., Led development of Airbnb’s Knowledge Graph and search indexing/serving infrastructure., Served as overall engineering lead for Airbnb’s cloud cost efficiency program.

## Career timeline

- **2007-2012** — Worked at Yahoo on ad-serving infrastructure; professional-profile reproductions list Principal Software Engineer.
- **2012-2014** — Worked at LinkedIn on distributed database systems; professional-profile reproductions list Staff Software Engineer.
- **2012** — Named among the initial Apache Helix committers in the project incubation record.
- **2014-2020** — Head of Data Platform and Search Infrastructure at Airbnb, according to DataHub’s official biography.
- **2021** — Acryl Data launched publicly in June with $9 million in seed funding; Jagadish was co-founder and CTO.
- **2023** — Identified publicly as CEO by June; Acryl Data announced a $21 million Series A.
- **2025** — Company adopted the DataHub name and announced a $35 million Series B, bringing disclosed funding to $65 million.

## Achievements

- Led Airbnb teams that built Dataportal and worked on Apache Airflow and Apache Superset.
- Led development of Airbnb’s Knowledge Graph and search indexing/serving infrastructure.
- Served as overall engineering lead for Airbnb’s cloud cost efficiency program.
- Co-founded the business commercializing LinkedIn’s open-source DataHub project.
- Co-led DataHub through its announced $35 million Series B in May 2025.
- Listed as an initial committer for Apache Helix.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — The October 1 CONTEXT 2026 announcement lists Jagadish among DataHub leaders participating in the November 4 virtual summit; the event is upcoming as of October 22.
- **2026-01** — Outlined four levels of context maturity in a LinkedIn post, connecting enterprise AI adoption to institutional knowledge and machine-usable context.
- **2025-12** — Announced product and engineering leadership additions as DataHub expanded its context platform work.
- **2025-05** — DataHub announced a $35 million Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners and its change of name from Acryl Data.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/swaroopjagadish

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Last updated: 2026-10-22