CEO and Founder at Samooha
Founding Samooha, a Snowflake-native data clean room platform acquired by Snowflake, and championing privacy-preserving data collaboration as a scalable, compliant alternative to third-party cookie-based advertising.
Last updated Feb 27, 2026 by AI Enrichment
Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan is one of AdTech's most prominent voices on privacy-preserving data collaboration, best known for founding Samooha, a data clean room platform built natively on Snowflake. Samooha enables brands, publishers, and data providers to collaborate on sensitive first-party data without exposing raw user-level information, directly addressing the industry's urgent need for compliant, scalable alternatives to third-party cookies. Her work sits at the intersection of privacy engineering, data infrastructure, and advertising measurement — making her a distinctive technical founder in a space often dominated by business-side executives. Before founding Samooha, Kamakshi spent over a decade at Google in senior engineering leadership roles, where she built and scaled large-scale data systems and led teams focused on privacy-focused advertising measurement, attribution, and data infrastructure. This deep background in distributed systems and privacy engineering gave her firsthand insight into the complexity of building trustworthy data collaboration tools at scale, and directly informed Samooha's technical architecture and product philosophy. Samooha was acquired by Snowflake in 2023, a significant validation of the platform's approach and Kamakshi's vision for the future of data clean rooms as a native capability within the modern data cloud. She has become a sought-after speaker and thought leader on topics including data clean rooms, privacy-safe advertising, identity resolution, and the post-cookie ecosystem, helping shape how the broader industry thinks about compliant data collaboration under GDPR, CCPA, and evolving global privacy frameworks.
Google (~2010-2021)