Sean Kandel is Trifacta's Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder, along with Joseph M. Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer.

[1][2][3][4] Kandel graduated from Stanford University in 2013 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2013 for his thesis on Interactive systems for data transformation and assessment under primary advisors Jeffrey Heer.

[3] The project resulted in the company Trifacta eventually selling Data Wrangler as a commercialized product.

[2][5][6][7] In 2017, Kandel was a recipient of an award for Silicon Valley’s young business leaders who are impacting their industries and their communities, Silicon Valley’s 40 Under 40 list.