Sal Calvo
Palo Alto, CA
Experience
- Luma AIPalo Alto, CA2025 - presentStrategy + Operations
Luma is building multimodal general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world. Thinking about product, data, and growth.
2022 - 2024 Co-FounderBuilt the first modern data stack app for the $1 trillion CPG industry, to help brands to identify opportunities on shelf, track sales performance, and win distribution. Muffin Data is now part of Confido!↗
- MetaMenlo Park, CA2020 - 2022Product Growth
Led growth and experimentation efforts for a series of emerging markets teams across Facebook and WhatsApp during a peak macro opportunity (500,000 new people in the developing world get their first cell phone every day).
- RJMetrics (acq. by Magento)Philadelphia, PA2014 - 2017Data Warehouse Analyst → Implementation Lead
Cut my teeth on data warehousing, sales engineering, and startups in general at the BI platform startup that incubated the modern data stack. RJ was acquired by Magento Commerce in 2016.
Education
- Stanford University2017 - 2019MS, Management Science & EngineeringThreshold Venture Fellow c/o '19Data ScienceStatistical InferenceSignificance TestingOptimizationLinear and Nonlinear ProgrammingStochastic ModelingDeep LearningFinancial StatisticsInvestment SciencePythonSQL
- La Salle University2010 - 2014BS, Finance (minors in math & CS)Mathematical ModelingObject-Oriented ProgrammingData MiningNetworkingDatabase DesignFinancial ForecastingOperations Research