This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vinoo Ganesh, the 34-year-old CEO of Kepler. He spent over six years at Palantir in the 2010s and later worked at Citadel. He’s based in New York. It’s been edited for length and clarity.
Palantir had a program we called Project Frontline. The idea behind Frontline was: How do we take software engineers and expose them to life as a forward-deployed engineer?
I actually went through a version of this before the program. I started off on the product development team, did a rotation that lasted for a long time as a forward-deployed engineer, then went back to the product development team.
I was…
