Satnam Alag

Chief Technology Officer at GRAIL

Santa Clara, California, United States

About Satnam Alag

Satnam Alag is Chief Technology Officer at GRAIL. Location: Santa Clara, California, United States.

Dr Alag is a seasoned software professional with over fifteen years of commercial software development and management experience, with over twenty years of experience in the machine learning and search areas. His expertise is in Big Data technologies, building large-scale multi-tenant SaaS applications, applying intelligence and personalization to Web 2.0 applications, SOA and J2EE architectures, delivering high quality software, and building high performing engineering teams. He is currently the CTO and VP of Engineering at NextBio. NextBio is a data-driven engine, which is at the intersection of Big Data and genomics. At NextBio, he leads a team that mines billions and billions of data points using the Hadoop stack and commodity hardware (see video on Intel’s site: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/big-data/big-data-genome-data-analysis-video.html). Prior to joining NextBio, he worked as a consultant with Johnson and Johnson's BabyCenter where he helped develop their personalization engine. Prior to that he was the Chief Software Architect and Dir. of Application Engineering at Rearden Commerce. He began his career at GE R&D and has held senior technical and management positions at Computing Technologies International and Black Pearl. Satnam is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) for the Java platform. His doctoral dissertation from the University of California, Berkeley was in the area of probabilistic reasoning and machine learning. He has a number of peer-reviewed publications, holds five patents. He is the author of the book "Collective Intelligence in Action" available at http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=891_113_1_23 Specialties: Big Data, Hadoop, HBase, J2EE, SOA, Machine Learning, Web 2.0, Collective Intelligence, Multi-tenant architectures, recommendation engines, web and text mining, search, web crawling

Skills

  • Hadoop
  • SOA
  • Machine Learning

Additional experience

  • Senior Vice President Software Engineering and Chief Security Officer

    GRAIL

    April 2020 – July 2026

Education

  • Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley
  • M.S, Rutgers University