Gourav Kumar — DevOps Engineer
My interests primarily lie in building scalable robust high performant Distributed Database Systems. Spend last four years building Azure SQL DB, as part of Query Processing team there. Worked on adding ApproxPercentile support, improving memory grant for batch mode row mode queries, enhancing batch mode performance, and spent some time on the Vector database offering. Before that worked at, Thoughtspot as part of their In-memory, columnar & parallel database Falcon. Prior to that during my masters from IISc Bangalore in 2018, where I worked under Prof. Jayant Haritsa in the Database Systems Lab. There I worked on building robust query processing framework for analytical query workload, without doing query selectivity estimations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Database Systems Engineer with expertise in cloud and in-memory technologies.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 7 yrs 6 mos
Career Highlights
- Expert in scalable distributed database systems.
- Significant contributions to Azure SQL Database performance.
- Experience in both cloud and in-memory database technologies.
Work Experience
Oracle
Principal Member of Technical Staff (10 mos)
Cockroach Labs
Member of Technical Staff (9 mos)
Microsoft
Software Engineer II (2 yrs 10 mos)
Software Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)
ThoughtSpot
MTS-2 (11 mos)
Member Of Technical Staff (7 mos)
Education
Master’s Degree at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bachelor’s Degree at Silicon Institute Of Technology, Bhubaneswar
High School at Kendriya Vidyalaya