Creator of one of the largest data lakes in the world, Uber engineer and architect Vinoth Chandar is behind Onehouse, a new project that has just announced its cloud-native managed service. As the company scaled up and became global, it needed access to more extensive and faster resources to allow for the app’s ETAs, food recommendations and ride safety capabilities. Chandar created Apache Hudi to facilitate a new path-breaking architecture that allowed the core warehouse and database functionality to be directly added to the data lake (subsequently, the lakehouse). Apache Hudi has become an industry-proven project, managing business requirements for several of the world’s biggest companies, including Amazon, Walmart, Disney+ Hotstar, GE Aviation, Robinhood, and TikTok. Co-led by Greylock and Addition, Onehouse raised US$8m in seed funding, which the company plans to spend on the lakehouse product and furthering research and development on Apache Hudi.