You can see this thread when the project got open sourced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12739771 . The CEO's handle is quinthar.
Amusingly, see this Twitter thread from aphyr, a respected known name in the DB field: https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/788755301151477760 and https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/788757992829222912, where he is surprised that the author don't know about basic concepts of distributed systems, such as CAP and IOPS.