Scott Shi is the Co-Founder and CTO of Kite. He is a seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience in AI and data platforms. At Uber, he built the company’s internal engineering division into a 200-person team. He was also a founding engineer for Salesforce Einstein AI, helping launch its first AI products, and co-founded RisingWave, a streaming database company that raised over $45 million. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, specializing in distributed systems and machine learning.