About Us
Our company was started in 2018 by two founders with a vision to reduce the time to insight, and accelerate the time to value, for customers.
In 2019 we started developing our technologies around both the emerging discipline of DataOps (with a clear focus on the true principles of DevOps), and extracting value from volume in IoT timeseries data.
In 2020 we publicly shared our DataOps Philosophy (#TrueDataOps) and released our DataOps for Snowflake platform supported by our patent-pending IoT Data Compression algorithm (Gallium).
In 2021 we are focused on supporting our diverse customer base across EMEA and North America to transform their organisations.
Our Story
DataOps.live has been born out of the data analytics professional services firm Datalytyx, which used the DataOps.live platform in numerous client engagements during the past two years.
DataOps.live co-founders Justin Mullen and Guy Adams developed the platform to address common data problems that afflicted most clients: slow development times, backlogged teams, and poor quality and version control. While refining the product in the crucible of real client engagements, the two drew on their background in software development to solidify a seven-pillar methodology for applying DevOps to data, which they call TrueDataOps. They then collaborated with other DataOps pioneers, including Wayne Eckerson, Mike Ferguson and Kent Graziano to write the book DataOps for Dummies.
To support key DataOps features, such as the ability to accurately develop, branch, and deploy both code and data, the DataOps.live team built its platform around Snowflake—the only data platform with zero-copy cloning. As a result, DataOps.live established a strong partnership with Snowflake and became a certified product on the Snowflake Partner Connect marketplace, where customers can instantly provision trials.
MEET OUR TEAM

Justin Mullen
CEO & Co-founder

Justin Mullen
CEO & Co-founder
Justin is a technologist to his core and has a significant background in enterprise data management for 30 years, largely the areas of data analytics, data integration, big data, governance, risk, performance management, & digital processes (workflow, etc.). His focus has been utilising cloud based data technologies to store, manage, cleanse and drive insight out of the data and information generated by organisations. He has been CEO at several businesses having led each of them to a trade sale or exit. Co-founder and Managing Director at DataOps.live which was born out of nearly a decade of professional services and hundreds of successful data projects. to meet the needs of modern, data-driven companies, trying to orchestrate pipelines with with vast volumes of IoT and Non-IoT data. Co-author of the 2020 DataOps Philosophy - #TrueDataOps (www.truedataops.org) and DataOps for Dummies.In his spare time Justin loves hanging out with his new dog, cycling, building tree houses, tinkering in the garage and educating 2 lovely daughters.

GUY ADAMS
CTO & Co-founder

GUY ADAMS
CTO & Co-founder
Guy is a multi-award winning Technology leader, Architect, lecturer, and world-wide speaker. Proud hands-on geek! Passionate about taking key technologies and bringing to bear to solve real world problems including Big Data, Microservices, Containerisation and, in particular, DataOps and true Cloud Native Architecture and Design.A technology leader for over 20 years in advanced satellite networks and constellations Guy has driven Software Agile and DevOps transformation across many teams and organisations. Guy then translated this experience and expertise to the, then brand new, infrastructure as code world, focussing on bringing the same value, governance, and repeatability as he was used to in the software world.
Guy joined the Data world as CTO of Datalytx (subsequently sold to Mphasis) and experienced first-hand the deep challenges the Data world was still suffering from. He made it his mission to solve this problem for third (and final) time, first software, then infrastructure and now Data. As CTO of DataOps.live he leads product development and works with some of the most advanced organisations in the world to realise the true value of DataOps.
Guy is the co-author of the 2020 DataOps Philosophy - #TrueDataOps (www.truedataops.org) and DataOps for Dummies. He was recently reselected as a Snowflake 2022 Data Superhero. In his spare time he loves lucubrating about grampuses.

STEVEN HUBER
CRO

STEVEN HUBER
CRO
Steve Huber serves as Chief Revenue Officer at DataOps. Prior to DataOps he has served in several executive leadership roles over the last 25 years in the Data Management and Analytics marketplace, most recently as CEO of Cirus.io. Steve has a pedigree in working with early-stage ventures to build and manage highly successful go-to-market teams including sales, marketing, business development, sales engineering and customer success teams in North America, EMEA and APAC. Past leadership positions include Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, Cask Data acquired by Google. Vice President of Sales & Financial Services at DataStax, Vice President of Sales, at Wandisco, Senior Vice President, Global Sales JustSystems as acquired by Keyence Corporation, Vice President Eastern Operations, Mark Monitor acquired by Thomson Reuters, Senior Vice President & GM, Conversion Services International executed a reverse merger (Evoke Software acquired by Informatica), Co-founder of ebi Solutions, LLC., acquired by Gentia Software PLC and Vice President of Corporate Sales, Holistic Systems acquired by Seagate Software. Steve has also served on several startup venture advisory boards.He attended West Virginia Wesleyan College and enjoys time with his family, fishing, cooking and weightlifting.

JOHN MARCHESE
EVP Strategic Business, Alliances & Channels

JOHN MARCHESE
EVP Strategic Business, Alliances & Channels
They say if you love your work you'll never work a day in your life. John has had the privilege of loving his work in the global technology industry for over 25 years. Partner sales and channel leverage is in his DNA, having leadership experience on all sides of the reseller, consulting services and technology ISV markets to develop a 360 degree viewpoint and experience set. He launched his first company focused on network consulting and systems development the day after he graduated from college and never looked back. Starting as a highly technical network and systems consultant, and continuing to evolve throughout his career, he has held diverse roles across technology, sales, business, channels and corporate development domains. He takes pride in being able to bridge technology and business collaboration, and work with diverse functional teams based on his career experience.Besides business innovation, John enjoys life in all ways he can with close friends and family, with diverse interests across travel, sports, art, fine dining, cars, music, golf, boating, charity and last but not least the NY Jets. He has a bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Buffalo, plus a variety of executive management training, and a variety of technical and business certifications.

THOMAS STEINBORN
VP of Products

THOMAS STEINBORN
VP of Products
Thomas comes to DataOps.live with over 20 years of experience in integration technology ranging from application integration to data management and data governance. He is a believer in DevOps principles and brought them to the products he’s led since 2005. Thomas has spent over 10 years scaling product management organizations at the global level. Prior to DataOps, he was Chief Product Officer at Infoniqa, a leader in Human Capital Management, Payroll and Time solutions in DACH. Prior to that he led product and User Experience as VP of Products at Talend, a leading provider of data integration, data integrity and data governance solutions.
PATRICK CONNOLLY
VP of Evangelism & Enablement

PATRICK CONNOLLY
VP of Evangelism & Enablement
Patrick is a highly experienced technology thought leader and enablement professional that brings a wealth of practical knowledge focusing on product and market leadership as well as enabling all parts of the buyer and seller journeys. Patrick is if anything, constantly curious. He has the unique ability to break down complex and technical concepts to connect technology with the transformational needs of today’s business challenges. Patrick brings decades of success in marketing solutions for enterprise software applications, data integration and governance with companies including JD Edwards, IBM, Talend, and more.In his spare time, Patrick is a dedicated father to an 12-year-old budding canine agility trainer and equestrian as well as a volunteer firefighter and EMT since 1997 serving the communities in which he lives. You’ll often find Patrick on a bicycle, riding the hills of the rural Wisconsin.

Benedict Von Schmeling
VP of Finance & Investment

Benedict Von Schmeling
VP of Finance & Investment
Benedict joined DataOps.live as VP of Finance and Investment in Summer 2022. Prior to that, Benedict worked at London-based PMB Capital (2015 – 2022), a merchant banking firm dedicated to the provision of advice and capital for business owners. Benedict led projects on the buy and the sell sides of the organization’s projects.Previously he assisted in establishing the Frankfurt office of the Edmond de Rothschild Private Merchant Banking LLP (2014 – 2015). He began his professional career at KPMG in Frankfurt (2011 – 2014), providing transaction services advice to clients from the financial services industry.
He graduated from Maastricht University (Netherlands), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Spain) and Toulouse School of Economics (France) specializing in macroeconomics and financial markets.
Benedict is a passionate fan of FC Cologne.

Raymon Gompelman
VP of Engineering

Raymon Gompelman
VP of Engineering
As a true Agile evangelist, Raymon spent most of his professional career building high performance teams in tech and data-driven organisations. After studying Psychology, he started his career as a Solution Architect Consultant building (big) data solutions for clients in various industries. He soon realised that his real strength was aligning his technical expertise with his leadership capabilities using his problem solving skills to shape and facilitate the right environment for engineers to excel in and to ultimately achieve better business outcomes. Raymon strongly believes in creating value through fair and transparent leadership with a lot of emphasis on individual responsibility and with a focus on solving problems by doing right rather than being right.Throughout his career, Raymon held various management and leadership roles demonstrating how Agile principles can be, and should be, applied to any given situation to create value. It’s that mindset that drives his values and principles.
Another passion for Raymon is to visit music festivals with his family and friends, play chess and support his community through various volunteer roles.
Our Vision
We firmly believe that DataOps starts with the truest principles of DevOps, Agile, Lean, test-driven development and total Quality Management. And we then must apply these principles to the unique discipline of data, data warehousing, data lake management and data analytics, which encompasses everything from traditional analytics to machine learning, data science and AI. We believe that the data environments of the future will be unable to function effectively without DataOps.
Our vision is that over the next 5 years every organisation will move to DataOps as the only way of sensibly building and governing data environments. Those adopting DataOps will have the agility to cope with the data tsunami upon them, the rigour to maintain control, and the power to deliver business value. The rest will face ever-increasing costs, reducing value and ultimately create a crisis in which they are replaced.
Our goal at DataOps.live is to create platforms and tools that underpin the philosophy of DataOps (#TrueDataOps) to enable every company and stakeholder to get better, faster, and higher quality data, with no compromise on governance and data security.