Episode 1: Founders' Voice: AI, ADM and Everything in Between — Ashwin Rajeeva ft. Raghu Mitra

This episode centers on how AI is reshaping enterprise data management, with a founder-level discussion between Ashwin Rajeeva (Co-Founder & CTO, Acceldata) and Raghu Mitra / Raghu Kandikonda (Co-Founder & VP Engineering, Acceldata).

Podcast / guest profiles

Ashwin Rajeeva
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Acceldata, leading the vision, architecture, and engineering behind one of the industry’s pioneering platforms for data observability and enterprise data management. With deep expertise in distributed systems, big-data infrastructure, and large-scale analytics platforms, he has spent his career building technologies that help organizations operate complex data ecosystems with reliability and efficiency. Before co-founding Acceldata in 2018, Ashwin held key engineering and architecture roles at companies such as Hortonworks, Zalando, Thoughtworks, and [24]7.ai, where he worked on high-scale data and cloud platforms.

Raghu Mitra / Raghu Kandikonda
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Acceldata, leading the company’s innovation in data observability and Agentic Data Management. Prior to Acceldata, he held powerful roles in organizations such as The Apache Software Foundation and Hortonworks, contributing to the evolution of the modern big data ecosystem. With deep expertise in distributed systems and AI-driven platforms, Raghu is passionate about building intelligent, autonomous technologies that transform how enterprises manage, trust, and scale their data.