# About Us

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Hotdata is the execution layer for AI agents.

AI agents are data workloads. They create datasets, fan out across many small queries, join results from multiple systems, and materialize intermediate state as they work.

Traditional data platforms were not designed for this model. Shared warehouses create contention, while separate systems introduce data copies, delay, and operational overhead.

Hotdata gives each agent workload an isolated, high-concurrency environment to search, query, join, analyze, and persist results across the data systems already in place without adding load to systems of record.

It is the data substrate agents use to execute multi-step work, retain state, and reuse results.

We’re a team of data-infrastructure engineers who have spent decades building, optimizing, and operating data platforms at scale.

![Hotdata founders](/assets/about/founders.jpg)
*Founders, left to right: Eddie A Tejeda (CTO), Divya Ranganathan (CEO), Zac Farrell (Principal Engineer).*

**Advisors:**

- [Andrew Lamb](https://andrew.nerdnetworks.org/), PMC Chair of Apache DataFusion, Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet, and a Member of the Apache Software Foundation.
- [Kathryn Vandiver](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynvandiver/), Technology Executive, SheTO Board Member and Advisor to Berkeley SkyDeck