Meet the team

Laurent Paris
CEO & Co-Founder
Born in Paris, France, Laurent previously worked at Yahoo, Spotify, and WeWork. He spends his free time hiking and reading – anything and everything. He dreams of vacationing at Glacier Bay National Park.

Julien Le Dem
CTO & Co-Founder
Raised in Normandy, France, Julien previously worked at Yahoo, Twitter, Dremio, and WeWork. His dream car is a 1982 DeLorean and his favorite movie character is Inigo Montoya (for his high motivation, focus, great heart and strong ethics).

Amanda Bulger
Head of Operations
Raised in Plum Island, Massachusetts, Amanda previously worked at The Echo Nest, Spotify, WeWork, and Luminary Media. She lives for summer, and spends her free time cooking, beach-walking, and learning to play the piano.

Michael Collado
Staff Software Engineer
Raised in New York, Michael previously worked at Amazon, Cruise, IHS, & Aranya. One day he’d like to travel to Mars. He misses reading for hours at a time, like he could when he was a kid.

Peter Hicks
Senior Software Engineer
Raised in New York, Peter previously worked at IBM and Mayo Clinic. He loves the word ‘effervescent’, has mastered house plants, and will know his life has been well-lived when he’s happy with his running pace.

Willy Lulciuc
Senior Software Engineer
Born in Constanta, Romania, Willy previously worked at WeWork, BounceX!, and Canary.is. He enjoys biking and roasting coffee beans to perfection, but still misses recess and loves pizza.

Minkyu Park
Senior Software Engineer

Ross Turk
VP Marketing
Born in Denver and raised in California, Ross previously worked at Red Hat, Inktank, SourceForge.net. He loves open source, plays guitar, uses the word ‘pithy’, and secretly wishes he could stop time.
Investors & Advisors

Matt Turck
Partner, FirstMark
Matt Turck is a Partner at venture capital firm FirstMark, where he focuses mostly on early-stage enterprise and B2B investing.

Maxime Beauchemin
CEO & Founder, Preset
A leader in the open- source community, Max is the original creator of Apache Airflow and Apache Superset.
Our values
Sustainable speed
We concentrate on a sustainable speed of execution, learn as we build, and stay focused before moving onto the next thing

Datakin offers
- Generous equity package and a competitive salary
- Excellent medical, vision, and dental coverage for employees and their families
- Flexible vacation policy (and we encourage using it!)
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, and family friendly policies