Built by people who have done the work
Seven years of GDPR advisory, Palantir-grade metadata engineering, and compliance law research — now building the infrastructure layer the field is missing.
Team
David Scott Turner
CEO & Co-Founder
Seven years as a GDPR auditor and data privacy consultant across Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Deep experience in ROPA construction, DPA relationships, and breach response. Built Qala after seeing firsthand how manual compliance processes fail at scale.
Priya Nair
CTO & Co-Founder
Built metadata graph systems at Palantir's data integration practice. Core expertise in lineage graph construction at scale and NLP-based schema classification. Designed the observability architecture underpinning Qala's classification and policy enforcement engine.
Lars Brunner
Head of Compliance Engineering
Former data engineering lead at a Basel-based pharmaceutical company, where he led the migration of processing activity documentation from spreadsheet-based ROPA to structured data pipelines. Brings deep understanding of how engineering teams interact with compliance requirements in regulated industries.
Elena Vasquez
Head of Privacy Research
Privacy law researcher with a focus on supervisory authority enforcement patterns across EU member states. Advises on classification model accuracy against GDPR Article 4(1) definitions and ensures Qala's policy engine reflects current regulatory guidance from the EDPB and national DPAs.
Join us in building the compliance infrastructure layer
We are looking for engineers and privacy specialists who want to work at the intersection of data infrastructure and EU regulatory requirements.