Daren Drummond
About Daren Drummond
Daren Drummond serves as the Senior Director of Product Management at AtScale, Inc., where he has worked since 2016. He has extensive experience in engineering and product management, having held senior roles at various technology companies and developed significant features that enhance data management and analytics.
Work at AtScale
Daren Drummond serves as the Senior Director of Product Management at AtScale, Inc., a position he has held since 2016. In this role, he focuses on enhancing product capabilities and driving innovation within the company. He has developed key working relationships with data, analytics, and data science practitioners at numerous Fortune 2000 companies. His contributions include supporting Sales and Marketing functions during critical customer meetings, webinars, and trade shows. Drummond is also a co-inventor of several AtScale patents, notably 'Data Statement Chunking' and 'Rule-based Data Source Selection'.
Education and Expertise
Daren Drummond studied at Williams College from 1991 to 1995, where he completed a four-year degree. His educational background has provided a foundation for his extensive career in product management and engineering. Drummond possesses expertise in application-level security, row-level security, and SAML authentication features. He has also defined query acceleration features that have resulted in significant cost savings for enterprise customers.
Background
Before joining AtScale, Daren Drummond held various positions in the technology sector. He worked at Acxiom Digital Inc. as Director of Engineering from 2006 to 2008 and served as Vice President of Engineering at Autonomy Inc., an HP Company, from 2011 to 2013. Additionally, he was a Senior Engineer and later Vice President of Engineering at Yield Software, Inc. His career began at Vantive, where he worked as a Programmer from 1998 to 1999.
Achievements
Throughout his career, Daren Drummond has made significant contributions to product development and engineering. He has defined multi-dimensional OLAP data warehouse feature sets that enable interactive reporting on big-data warehouses, including Google Big Query, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, and Azure SQL Server. His work has led to enterprise customers reporting cloud database cost savings in the range of $10 million annually.