Ajay Kulkarni
@acoustik
Perpetual optimist. CEO @TigerDatabase, backed by @Benchmark @NEA @IconVentures @Redpoint TigerGlobal. ex- @Microsoft x2, @MIT x3, others. he/him
๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ง๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ Iโm so excited to share some big news with all of you: ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ง๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ, ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ค๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ.โฆ
At @TigerDatabase, we believe your application should define your stack, not be constrained by it. The future is open. check out my thoughts about it in our blog tigerdata.com/blog/escaping-โฆ
๐ Spotted in the wild: TigerData on the big screen Our Times Square billboard is officially live โ and yes, thereโs still time to score free Tiger merch just by snapping a pic ๐ธ Hereโs the deal: 1๏ธโฃ Head to Times Square 2๏ธโฃ Find us at: ๐1500 Broadway (between 43rd & 44th,โฆ
I know Iโm late to the party, but Claude Code is amazing. It feels like a real coding agent working with me. Not just autocomplete. It feels transparent, intelligent, fast, fun. Somehow, Cursor suddenly feels... dated. This is the future I knew was coming, but somehow, itโsโฆ
1/4 I got sick of MCP hype so I interviewed three @TigerDatabase engineers who've actually built with it. While everyone calls MCP "USB-C for AI," the security situation is genuinely scary. Critical vulnerabilities everywhere if you're not careful.
Lately I've been thinking about creating a Personal Memory Assistant. Something I could talk to, about my life, my data, my patterns. I took my first step today. An MVP of the Personal Memory Hub I recently wrote about: An agent that speaks natural language. Talks to myโฆ
AI without memory is just autocomplete. What if AI could truly remember *you*, across tools, chats, journals, photos, and goals? Iโm exploring a concept called the "Personal Memory Hub": a private, portable memory layer powered by AI, connected via Model Context Protocol (MCP).โฆ
Writing 140 million tuples per second with new "direct write into columnstore" technique of @TigerDatabase Postgres instance. (In fact, had to run the benchmark locally to not be bottlenecked by the network!) Speed wins.
Having spent many years in academia, surrounded by amazing scientists, it's awesome to learn how @TigerDatabase is enabling Big Physics. @CERN, working with @Siemens, has adopted TimescaleDB to power next-gen SCADA monitoring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). ๐ฏโค๏ธโ๏ธ
Epic week in NYC: Done! โ Tiger One meetup with 100 attendees โ Talk at AWS NYC Summit with 75 attendees โ Packed booth in the AWS NYC Summit expo hall (with a branded swag vending machine!) โ Times Square billboard ๐คฉ โ 35 Tigers descending onto NYC to meet customersโฆ
TigerData, the creators of TimescaleDB aka the fastest Postgres, is hosting a dev meetup in New York City on Tuesday July 15th. Meet the folks from Replicated, MarketReader, and the TigerData (@TimescaleDB) team. Get answers, real talk, and hands-on help from engineers. ๐โฆ