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Serhii Sokolenko

Co-Founder & CEO, Tower

Serhii Sokolenko is the CEO and co-founder of Tower.dev, a platform for Data + AI apps that run on open Iceberg storage and play nicely with other engines. Before founding Tower, Serhii worked at Databricks in the Unity Catalog compute group, at Snowflake on a high-concurrency, low-latency version of the data warehouse, and at Google Cloud Dataflow, building a unified batch and streaming data platform. His first startup was about opinion and emotion identification in natural text, and his second startup introduced NLP to LegalTech.

Serhii Sokolenko

Sessions / 2025 / 1 talk

  • AI Launchpad 2025: Tower

    Serhii Sokolenko and Brad Heller share insights from Tower's elegant 2-layer data stack where all compute engines coexist harmoniously, exploring how to run Python frameworks from ETL to inference on scalable single-node compute with Iceberg open storage. These Snowflake alumni and Big Tech veterans offer valuable perspectives on building simple yet powerful architectures that enable seamless collaboration between different processing engines without complexity overhead.

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