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About

I spent 18 years in big tech, building digital products like applications, search engines, and big data infrastructure, with roles at Microsoft (8 years), Facebook (5 years), and Pinterest (3 years). My startup journey began with Nebula, an open-source analytics engine, and grew into creating accessible products for underserved communities. With Columns, our mission is to make data storytelling simple for non-technical users. We achieve this through fast cloud-based data processing, analytics, AI, and exceptional design. We also support a financial data product, Fina (fina.money)

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Founder & Leadership at Fina

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Maker History

FinaCreate Your Ultimate Personalized Finance Tracker!
Columns Drive for GmailAutomate Email Attachments To Spreadsheet
Jun 2026
RechartBuild and share interactive data apps with your clients
Oct 2025
Columns5 minutes from data to story
VisitVisualize your data from a single command at your terminal
Aug 2022

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p/fina

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4d ago

People Who Wear Too Many Financial Hats

If you run a side hustle, freelance on top of a day job, or split bills with a partner while also managing a business account, you already know the problem.

Most budgeting apps assume you have one financial life. In reality, you probably have two or three, all tangled together in one bank feed.

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3mo ago

Columns Drive for Gmail - Automate Email Attachments To Spreadsheet

Easily automate data entry from attachments. Extract Gmail™ invoices, receipts, and PDFs directly from attachment to spreadsheet rows with zero manual work.

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4mo ago

Stop Manually Copy-Pasting Invoices. We Built a Zero-Setup Gmail Tool & Need Your Feedback!

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