Tristan Zajonc

Co-founder and CEO of Continual, a venture backed startup building the AI layer for the modern data stack. Tristan previously cofounded Sense, a next-generation platform for data science and machine learning that was acquired by Cloudera in 2016.

At Cloudera, he spent 3 years leading the ML engineering team and building software for ML and data science at scale. In his earlier life, he spent 10 years in the trenches of applied data science as an economist and consultant with USAID, the World Bank, the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, and Harvard's Center for International Development. He holds a PhD in public policy from Harvard University.