Shyam Sankar '00

Shyam earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. He is currently the director of forward deployed engineering at Palantir Technologies. Shyam leads Palantir’s government, commercial, and philanthropy engineering teams and maintains oversight of all deployments worldwide. Prior to working at Palantir, Shyam was the director of business development for Zoom Corporation, where he developed a global network of financial institutions providing low cost remittance services to immigrant communities in Africa, Southeastern Asia, India, and Latin America. Shyam has been profiled by media sources including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, National Public Radio, Bloomberg Business Week, and Forbes. He was a featured speaker at the 2013 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, TED 2010, and TED Global 2012.