4x founder
Kamal Gupta
CEO @ Omnistrate | Founding Team, AWS Control Plane | Scaled Aurora to $B+ | Ex-GM @ Confluent | 30+ Patents & multiple Best Paper Awards | Host: Agentic SaaS Talks | Investor | Venture Partner at Pioneer Funds
Experience
Career
2023Omnistrate
FounderFounder and CEO (YC W23) · 2023 – Present
2026Nistro AI by Omnistrate(omnistrate.com)
Co-founderCo-Founder · 2026 – Present
2024Felafax AI (YC S24)
Angel Investor · 2024 – Present
2023Pioneer Fund
Venture Partner · 2023 – Present
2021Confluent
General Manager · 2021 – 2023
2020Confluent
Senior Director · Mountain View, California, United States · 2020 – 2021
2013Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Senior Leadership · San Francisco Bay Area · 2013 – 2020
2012Neptune.io
Co-founderCo-Founder and CTO · 2012 – 2013
2011Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Engineering Manager · 2011 – 2012
2007Amazon Web Services (AWS)
FounderSenior Software Engineer · 2007 – 2012
2006Intel Corporation
Research Scientist · 2006 – 2007
- 2005
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)
Research Scientist · 2005 – 2006
Bio
Kamal is a Co-Founder & CEO of Omnistrate. He is a repeat founder with an entrepreneurial spirit. Kamal led the engineering for Kafka at Confluent across all channels. During his time, Kafka Cloud revenue grew by 20x. Before that, he led the database engineering for AWS Aurora MySQL, a BB+ dollar business managing MM+ of database nodes. During his period at AWS (2007-2020), he built more than half-a-dozen cloud services at AWS across different domains & providers