The CEO and founder of CovalentHQ.com, Ganesh Swami is an expert in blockchain, data, SQL, analytics, and startups. With a personal blog at iamganesh.com, Ganesh has entrepreneurship running deep in his blood. He founded a software consultancy while still in high school, founded the Simon Fraser Linux user group, and built products that have been featured on national television. Ganesh has been in the data space for over 10 years and is well-versed in collecting, storing, searching, and packaging data. He currently leads Covalent, a brand new, venture-backed company dedicated to bridging centralized databases with distributed ledger technologies (blockchains.) Ganesh is passionate about using technology to make the world a better place and has specialties in product development, business development, public speaking, open source, technical marketing, distributed systems, and high-performance computing.