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Why Tessell?

It’s been a long time, since I’ve used the Blog-o-matic 9000. There’s been a lot of change in my life since the last time I wrote something here.

Some of the highlights:

  • My wife gave birth to our 4th child Luca
  • Joined Lacework after almost 4 successful years at Zerto
  • Moved from Charlotte, NC to Charleston, SC
  • Attended President’s Club at Lacework for exceeding my sales quota
  • Moved from being a sales engineer to a team lead, and then a sales engineering manager.
  • After almost 2.5 years and a great run, I decided to leave Lacework and join Tessell as the Director of Sales Engineering for the Eastern United States.

Now some of you may be asking, who? Who or what is Tessell? I’m glad you asked.

Tessell provides fully managed, high-performance database as a service (DBaaS) for your choice of engine on your choice of cloud. In layman’s terms, we’ll run your most critical workloads for you, and do it faster and in most cases, for less money, than other options with a much smaller learning curve.

So why did I leave a place where I found tremendous success to join a place that hasn’t seen that same level? Short answer, vision. Tessell has a ton going for it:

People

  • The founding team of Bala Kuchibhotla, Bakul Banthia, and Kamal Khanuja have been working together for a long time and have a proven expertise in the field. They’ve built solutions at Oracle and Nutanix prior to building Tessell. Their vision was a huge piece of why I wanted to come here.
  • I am fortunate enough to work with some former Lacers like Tim Moxness, Michael Atkinson, Ryan Kilpatrick and Ben Williams, who I have had great success with. The fact that these folks really care about solving customer problems and not just pushing software is important to me, especially because of my background being a customer.

Technology

  • I’ve heard of a lot of products that sounded too good to be true. VMware, Pure Storage, Rubrik, Zerto, to name a few. I’ve bought each of them and seen each one solve real world problems firsthand. Tessell gives me the same vibe. Each one of these vendors have a great technical value proposition, but they also affected the people in my organization in a positive way.
  • I’ve always loved when organizations can get the most out of technology. When they can find a different way to get the most out of an already innovative tech. What Tessell has done, is take NVMe compute shapes in the cloud and make them durable. Meaning, grab all the horsepower that you need to run your apps but don’t worry about data loss. They’ve also found a way to do this at a lower cost, and higher performance (thank you NVMe) than other solutions out there. That’s pretty cool.
  • The other thing that I love is that Tessell takes your database administrators (DBAs) and it super charges them. Tessell takes complicated tasks that the most senior folks typically need to work on, and it makes those tasks seem trivial. In doing so, this enables newer or less experienced team members to handles tasks that are above their experience level.

The Future

  • Tessell hasn’t been here long. The company was founded in 2021. The vision though, is a solid one. To be THE DBaaS for the cloud. Any cloud, any database, at YOUR TERMS. I’m so excited to be on board and ready to help build the next great cloud company.

Stay tuned for more content on Tessell. I’m planning on diving deeper into the what, how, why of Tessell itself soon. For now, check us out here:

Website – https://www.tessell.com/

LinkedIn – Tessell | LinkedIn

YouTube – Tessell – YouTube