Brad Heller

CEO & Co-Founder of

Tower.dev (2024)

About

Brad Heller is Co-Founder and CTO at Tower.dev, a next-generation data platform as a service built on Apache Iceberg for Data and AI applications.

Before founding

Brad earned a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University and built his career across Cloudability, Microsoft, WebMD, Puppet, and Snowflake, bridging startup agility with enterprise scale.

Founder Insights

A respected voice in infrastructure as code and platform engineering, Brad is passionate about clean architecture, developer productivity, data virtualization, and open source tooling.

Experience

Brad worked on the control plane at Snowflake before co-founding Tower with Serhii Sokolenko, making Tower his third startup venture.

Scale & Impact

Tower has raised $6.4M across pre-seed and seed rounds led by DIG Ventures and Speedinvest, attracting angel investors including the CEOs of Datadog and MotherDuck.

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Brad Heller

Tower.dev

Co-Founder

Company(s)

Tower.dev

Industry

SaaS

Year Founded

2024

Stage/Funding

Seed • $5.5M

Company Location

Connect

About

Brad Heller is Co-Founder and CTO at Tower.dev, a next-generation data platform as a service built on Apache Iceberg for Data and AI applications.

Before founding

Brad earned a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University and built his career across Cloudability, Microsoft, WebMD, Puppet, and Snowflake, bridging startup agility with enterprise scale.

Founder Insights

A respected voice in infrastructure as code and platform engineering, Brad is passionate about clean architecture, developer productivity, data virtualization, and open source tooling.

Experience

Brad worked on the control plane at Snowflake before co-founding Tower with Serhii Sokolenko, making Tower his third startup venture.

Scale & Impact

Tower has raised $6.4M across pre-seed and seed rounds led by DIG Ventures and Speedinvest, attracting angel investors including the CEOs of Datadog and MotherDuck.

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Brad Heller

CEO & Co-Founder of

Tower.dev (2024)

About

Brad Heller is Co-Founder and CTO at Tower.dev, a next-generation data platform as a service built on Apache Iceberg for Data and AI applications.

Before founding

Brad earned a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University and built his career across Cloudability, Microsoft, WebMD, Puppet, and Snowflake, bridging startup agility with enterprise scale.

Founder Insights

A respected voice in infrastructure as code and platform engineering, Brad is passionate about clean architecture, developer productivity, data virtualization, and open source tooling.

Experience

Brad worked on the control plane at Snowflake before co-founding Tower with Serhii Sokolenko, making Tower his third startup venture.

Scale & Impact

Tower has raised $6.4M across pre-seed and seed rounds led by DIG Ventures and Speedinvest, attracting angel investors including the CEOs of Datadog and MotherDuck.

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Brad Heller

Tower.dev

Co-Founder

Company(s)

Tower.dev

Industry

SaaS

Year Founded

2024

Stage/Funding

Seed • $5.5M

Company Location

Connect

About

Brad Heller is Co-Founder and CTO at Tower.dev, a next-generation data platform as a service built on Apache Iceberg for Data and AI applications.

Before founding

Brad earned a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University and built his career across Cloudability, Microsoft, WebMD, Puppet, and Snowflake, bridging startup agility with enterprise scale.

Founder Insights

A respected voice in infrastructure as code and platform engineering, Brad is passionate about clean architecture, developer productivity, data virtualization, and open source tooling.

Experience

Brad worked on the control plane at Snowflake before co-founding Tower with Serhii Sokolenko, making Tower his third startup venture.

Scale & Impact

Tower has raised $6.4M across pre-seed and seed rounds led by DIG Ventures and Speedinvest, attracting angel investors including the CEOs of Datadog and MotherDuck.

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