Shyam Sankar (@ssankar) — Twitter Score 117 out of 1000

Shyam Sankar is the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Palantir Technologies, where he joined in 2006 as employee number 13 and helped shape the company's Forward Deployed Engineer model. Shyam Sankar's Twitter Score is 117 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #5,648 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Shyam Sankar has been a central figure at Palantir Technologies for nearly two decades, serving in senior leadership across multiple roles. While serving as the company's COO in November 2021, he described Foundry for Crypto as a potential major accelerant for crypto companies and indicated that customers could pay Palantir in cryptocurrency. Foundry for Crypto is built to support anti-money laundering and know-your-customer workflows, decentralized application business intelligence, and cross-chain analytics. Beyond Palantir, Shyam Sankar serves as Chairman of Ginkgo Bioworks, and previously worked at Xoom as an executive.

Shyam Sankar posts across 1,581 total posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 81 accounts a total of 254 times, reflecting consistent engagement from across the crypto and enterprise software communities.

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The accounts that follow Shyam Sankar include 462 founders, 141 angel investors, 91 influencers and 6 VCs, among them Marc Andreessen, Mert, Anthony Pompliano, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya and Garry Tan.