Matthias Broecheler

I’m a serial entrepreneur who loves to build innovative data systems and high-performance teams.

I have decades of research experience in databases, analytic systems, and machine learning. I got my PhD from the University of Maryland in Computer Science with a focus on graph databases and relational machine learning. I developed the Titan graph database (now called JanusGraph).

I have co-founded 4 companies including Aurelius which was acquired by DataStax in 2015. I am currently a Chief Technologist at DataStax.

I am a practitioner and lifelong student of team leadership.

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Working in the CTO’s Office: Lessons Learned

Matthias Broecheler, Apr 16, 2020

These are the lessons I learned working inside the CTO’s office of a database technology company. In the fall of 2017, I transitioned into the CTO’s office under Jonathan Ellis after bringing DataStax Graph to market and iterating on it for a year.

Developing an Enterprise Software Product: Lessons Learned

Matthias Broecheler, Feb 21, 2018

These are the lessons I learned turning an open-source database project into an enterprise software product and the pitfalls I fell into.

Getting Acquired: Lessons Learned

Matthias Broecheler, Nov 28, 2016

On January 30th, 2015 the company that I co-founded, Aurelius, got acquired by DataStax. It was the first time that I negotiated and executed an acquisition of substantial size (>$1M) and this post summarizes the lessons I learned in the process [1].