Bhaskar "BG" Ghosh acts as a virtual CTO across 8VC's portfolio companies, drawing on 20+ years of engineering leadership at LinkedIn, Yahoo Right Media, NerdWallet, Oracle, and Informix to help founders with data architecture, infrastructure choices, and engineering organization design. He combines his PhD in Computer Science from Yale and 22+ U.S. patents with hands-on experience scaling massive data platforms—including building LinkedIn's back-end infrastructure during its growth from 50M to 550M+ members—to evaluate and support modern data and infrastructure startups. Bhaskar "BG" Ghosh acts as a virtual CTO across 8VC's portfolio companies, drawing on 20+ years of engineering leadership at LinkedIn, Yahoo Right Media, NerdWallet, Oracle, and Informix to help founders with data architecture, infrastructure choices, and engineering organization design. He combines his PhD in Computer Science from Yale and 22+ U.S. patents with hands-on experience scaling massive data platforms—including building LinkedIn's back-end infrastructure during its growth from 50M to 550M+ members—to evaluate and support modern data and infrastructure startups.