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Jacob Kimmel Learned to Read a Cell. Then He Built a Company Around the Question.
At UCSF, Jacob Kimmel studied what a cell’s movement could reveal. At NewLimit, the co-founder and CEO is working at a far larger scale, but the old question still follows him: what can a good measurement make possible?
Ratan Tipirneni
Ratan Tipirneni is President and CEO of Tigera, the company behind Project Calico - the open-source container networking and security project powering over 100 million containers across 8 million nodes in 166 countries. A serial entrepreneur with stints at Cisco, Actifio, Sun Microsystems, and SupportSoft, he joined Tigera in 2017 and has since grown it into the definitive platform for Kubernetes security, observability, and now AI workload protection.
Tigera
Tigera is the creator of Calico, the open-source standard for Kubernetes networking and security that powers more than a million clusters every day. From its San Jose headquarters, the company sells Calico Cloud and Calico Enterprise - SaaS and on-prem platforms that bolt active runtime security, zero-trust microsegmentation, and observability onto container environments at any scale.