Meet the team
Ravin Thambapillai
Co-Founder and CEO
Ravin spent 7 years at Palantir building AI powered systems in large financial institutions, life sciences organizations, and public health institutions. Before that, he was in the trenches and leading teams at Google, THG (IPOd), and GoCardless (Unicorn).
Jack Fischer
Co-Founder and CTO
Jack started his career at early H1 and then joined Palantir. As a tech lead, he led teams applying Al in areas from air travel to healthcare to US defense, including Palantir's first cash generative project in Life Sciences. Jack was also the engineering Hiring Manager for Palantir's commercial business, building Palantir's next generation of talent.
Ria Balli
Founding Engineer
Ria studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon and has focused her education on software systems and design. During her time in school, she developed a diverse software product design background by working on embedded devices, financial applications, assistive technology, and XR systems. Prior to joining Credal she interned at Jump Trading, a leading proprietary trading firm.
Jessica Shen
COO
Jessica joined Credal from Bloom, a YC-backed consumer fintech / edtech startup, where she led operations & product as the sole business hire. Outside of work, she started Asian Founders Club, a community that brings together AAPI founders and creators in NYC.
Livia Seibert
Founding Engineer
Livia joined Credal from Google, where she spent 2.5 years working on data exfiltration boundaries for Google Cloud Platform projects and on backup encryption for Android devices. Prior to that, she studied electrical and computer engineering at Duke with a focus on computer architecture.
Betsy Pu
Founding Engineer
Betsy brings experience from Atlassian and Bloomberg. She joins Credal from a startup where she helped create novel systems for exploring high scale visual information and worked on performance sensitive scaled infrastructure. Betsy studied computer science at Princeton.
Shyryn Ospanova
Forward Deployed Software Engineer
Prior to Credal, Shyryn worked on applied AI projects across speech, vision, and robotics, from developing reinforcement learning systems for autonomous racing to building radiology tools with voice-assisted dictation. She has published research in IEEE and Nature on epidemiological modeling and cancer imaging. Shyryn studied Systems Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Outside of work, she enjoys occasional endurance running and visiting museum exhibitions.
Dae Lim Chung
Forward Deployed Software Engineer
Before Credal, Dae Lim co-founded Blume, an AI accounting startup backed by Robin Hood Catalyst. He built computer-vision and language-model systems at Columbia, and conducted privacy research at Dartmouth’s Trust Lab published at IEEE SaTML. Dae Lim studied Computer Science at Dartmouth College and Columbia University.
Xavier Warmerdam
Forward Deployed Software Engineer
Xavier joined Credal after co-founding an agentic GTM startup, where he was the technical lead. Prior to that, he worked as a data engineer at Qualtrics, designing and maintaining data pipelines for some of the world’s largest companies. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Christian Oberheide
Founding Engineer
Christian brings a decade of experience across companies of all sizes and industries. He joins us from Peloton where he supported the decomposition of their legacy monolith. Prior to that, he spent 4 years at Facebook leading various performance and reliability efforts across their infrastructure.
Joe Paolicelli
Founding Engineer
Joe spent 6 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, taking on a number of roles, including building mission control software and participating in flight operations for two Mars rover missions. He majored in Computer Science at the George Washington University.
Cameron Gutterman
Founding Deployment Strategist
Cameron joined Credal from MongoDB, where he built Guardian, a Credal-powered security response bot that transformed how MongoDB handled customer security and compliance questions. He also led GRC compliance work across PCI DSS, SOC 2, and HDS, while managing security relationships with some of MongoDB's most strategic customers. Outside of work, he enjoys open water swimming and playing water polo.
Interested in joining our team? We're hiring!
