Andrew Colombi is the Co-founder and CTO of Tonic.ai. Upon completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Astrodynamics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2008, he joined Palantir as an early employee. There, he led the team of engineers that launched the company into the commercial sector and later began Palantir’s Foundry product. His extensive work in analytics across a full spectrum of industries provide him with an in-depth understanding of the complex realities captured in data. Today, he is building Tonic.ai’s platform to engineer data that parallels the complexity of modern data ecosystems and supply development teams with the resource-saving tools they most need.