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/ About Expanso

About Expanso

Expanso brings policy-driven pipelines to the edge, processing data before costly centralization.

/ Our Mission

We Solve the Distributed Data Problem

Intelligence comes first.

The old model ships everything to an expensive center and prays for insight. We flip it: process, govern, and understand data the moment it's created.

We bring intelligence to the data - for real-time decisions from source to enterprise.

Radical Cost Control

Cut ingestion, storage, and compute 40-60% by filtering noise at the source.

Governance from the Start

Mask PII, enforce policy, and catalog upstream - before risk spreads.

Faster Time to Value

Plug-and-play connectors and policies - no brittle scripts.

/ Global Reach

Where Your Data Lives, We're There

Operations across four continents - from factory floors to hospitals.

Expanso global operations map

NA

North America

Seattle, Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver

EU

Europe

London, Munich, Amsterdam

ME

Middle East

Egypt, Tel Aviv, Dubai

APAC

Asia Pacific

India, Sydney

/ Leadership Team

Architects of Cloud-Native Infrastructure

Built by leaders behind Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Kubeflow, and global compute platforms.

David Aronchick

David Aronchick

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

  • First managing PM for Kubernetes, co-created CNCF
  • Co-founded Kubeflow, the ML platform for Kubernetes
  • Led open-source ML at Microsoft Azure
Walid Baruni

Walid Baruni

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

  • Engineered core of AWS global logging infrastructure
  • Lead Architect for AWS Kinesis, processing trillions of events
  • Protocol Labs: decentralized storage & networking systems
Tony Evans

Tony Evans

Chief Operating Officer

  • Led $10B+ licensing strategy and execution at Microsoft
  • Management consultant at McKinsey & Company
  • Investment professional at Bernstein Capital

/ What Drives Us

Our Core Values

Security First

Privacy and sovereignty by default; govern at the source to reduce risk.

Open Innovation

We build and contribute in the open. Expanso avoids lock-in and accelerates progress.

Global Perspective

Designed for regional rules - GDPR, residency, and beyond.

Customer-Centric

Outcomes over hype: lower cost, faster value, less toil.

/ Investors

Backed by Leading Investors

Aligned with our vision for distributed data.

Array VC
General Catalyst
Hetz Ventures
Protocol Labs
Samsung NEXT

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