Kishy Kumar — Director of Engineering

Engineering Director responsible for the vision, architecture, and product development of multiple high-impact features in the Oracle Database Transactions Engine. I lead a team of highly-talented engineers who are responsible for the development of the next-generation cloud-scale distributed Oracle Database engine. My group is responsible for implementing highly-visible projects in these areas: ** Oracle Database’s JSON Relational Duality ** : Novel way of developing apps. Keynote announcement: https://youtu.be/e8-jBkO1NqY?t=27 ** Oracle Trusted Answer Search **: Keynote announcement: https://youtu.be/lU1HCd-8Uwk?t=2088 ** Oracle GenDev **: Keynote announcement: https://youtu.be/lU1HCd-8Uwk?t=1600 ** Core RDBMS Transaction Processing ** - Multiple Autonomous Transaction Processing features - Transaction locking - Multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) - Parallel and Distributed Transactions - Transaction commit protocols - Undo management - Serial and Parallel Transaction Recovery - I've worked on several database areas: Transaction Processing, Process, Memory, CPU, IO Management, Database Engineered Systems - Oracle Exadata for 12+ years. # Interests: - AI - Search - File, Storage, Database Systems - AI (Applied and Core) - Operating Systems - Distributed Systems - Computer Architecture # Speaking Engagements - "Evolving Transactions in Oracle 23ai: New Advances in Concurrency and Consistency" Seminar @CMU Database Group, 2025: https://youtu.be/RAcqr8yPblo - “Hack Your Way with Oracle Database 23ai” @CMU TartanHacks - "A Safari through Oracle's Dense Transactional Jungle" Seminar @UW-Madison's Database Group, 2022: https://youtu.be/xwBB53Zm1vc - "How to Navigate Job Search" @Oracle Summer of Sourcing, 2022 # Research Engagements - Program Committee Member for EDBT 2026 - Shadow Program Committee Member for VLDB 2026 - SIGMOD 2025 paper on “JSON Relational Duality: A Revolutionary Combination of Document, Object, and Relational Models” - Patents/papers: t.ly/-l6zO # Judging Engagements - Journal Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems - Berkeley CalHacks, CMU TartanHacks, LaunchHacks - SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards, Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards - WeMakeFuture's International Startup Roadshow - EforAll's Startup Accelerator Finals Join me if you are a highly motivated engineer seeking to work on cutting edge distributed storage design in a highly-visible team at Oracle Database. --- (Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer)

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Database Technology Expert with a focus on Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems.

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States

Experience: 14 yrs 2 mos