Shyam Sankar (@ssankar) — Twitter Score 132 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 131 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #4,720 (top 1%) among 493,607 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 1,591 total posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 101 accounts a total of 298 times, reflecting consistent engagement from across the crypto and enterprise software communities.

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The accounts that follow Shyam Sankar include 526 founders, 152 angel investors, 105 influencers and 7 VCs, among them Marc Andreessen, Mert, Nic Carter, Anthony Pompliano, David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya.