Niraj Tolia is the CEO and Co-Founder at Kasten, an early-stage startup working on cloud-native storage infrastructure. Previously, he was the Senior Director of Software Engineering at EMC/Maginatics and was responsible for the CloudBoost family of products that focused on in-cloud data protection. Prior to EMC’s acquisition of Maginatics, he was a founding member of the Maginatics team and played multiple roles within the company including VP of Engineering, Chief Architect, and Staff Engineer. Niraj received his PhD, MS, and BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Niraj has previous speaking experience at a number of venues, including invited talks, industry and academic conference talks, and CTO summits.