Our Team
Leadership
Rooted in pioneering distributed systems and edge computing research at the University of Toronto, our team is building sovereign, and secure AI enabled decision making systems for industrial and dual use purposes.
Brian Ramprasad
CEO, Co-Founder
Brian is a Computer Science PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. With more than 10 years of experience building low-latency stream processing systems for natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) applications. He brings deep technical expertise to VantEdge's core architecture for dual use. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards in the edge computing field.
- ▸2X founder, $20 million in revenue
- ▸7 years building AI systems, funded by Department of National Defense (DND)
- ▸200+ citations and more than 10 publications
- ▸Holds a BCom, MSc, MA from York University and the University of Manchester
Rudraksh (Rudy) Monga
CTO, Co-Founder
Rudraksh is ex-AWS with more than 5 years of building real-world systems. A 5-time hackathon winner — including Hack the North and Cohere — he has created numerous open-source tools. He leads VantEdge's engineering and product development.
- ▸Creator of open-source tools with 1,000+ daily active users
- ▸Host of the Not a Minimum Viable podcast
- ▸BSc Computer Science, University of Toronto
Eyal de Lara, PhD
Chief Scientist, Co-Founder
Eyal is one of Canada's top computer scientists and a pioneer in the edge computing and distributed systems field with more than 30 years of experience. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He joined the department in 2002 after earning his PhD from Rice University. His research lies at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud and mobile computing, and applied AI, with contributions in system virtualization, edge computing, indoor localization, and mobile security. His work has had impact in both academia and industry, including the commercialization of research on virtual machine elasticity. Eyal provides scientific leadership and strategic vision for VantEdge.
- ▸Chair (Head) of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- ▸8,600+ citations and more than 200+ publication · 8 patents
- ▸EuroSys Test of Time Award — Edge Computing & Distributed Systems
- ▸GridCentric (VM Fork technology) — acquired by Google
Built from Research, Proven in Production
VantEdge Labs emerged from the University of Toronto's distributed systems lab, where our founders spent years studying how data moves through complex enterprise environments. That research became the foundation of our secure Data Gateway — an intelligent access layer that gives AI agents accurate, secure, and compliant access to enterprise data.