Joseph Ternasky

Senior Vice President of Engineering @Carta

Santa Clara, CA, US

Carta develops software to assist companies, investors, and legal professionals in managing capitalization tables, valuations, investments, compensation and equity plans. Our services aid private companies from their founding through to IPO, including 409A valuations and secondary offerings. We assist law firms to incorporate startups and manage their cap tables, while offering investors modern portfolio management, automated valuations, scenario modeling, and portfolio analytics.Leading the development and management of a comprehensive equity platform that meticulously tracks the private company ownership details for a diverse array of stakeholders: entrepreneurs, employees, venture capital, and private equity investors.Defining and constructing the ownership graph: curated, proprietary data that connects startups, employees, funds, investors, and law firms. The ownership graph integrates Carta applications through professional relationships, equity information and notification of material events.Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to internal business processes for customer onboarding, content recommendation, data matching and correction across disparate sources, and customer support. Technologies include document classification, entity and relationship recognition (NER), retrieval augmented generation (RAG), robotic process automation (RPA), Q&A against document and knowledge graph (KG) contents.

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science