Karthik received his BS and MS in CS from IIT-M and UT Austin. Karthik was one of the original database engineers at Facebook responsible for building distributed databases such as Cassandra and HBase. He is an Apache HBase committer, and also an early contributor to Cassandra, before it was open-sourced by Facebook. He is now a Co-Founder & the CTO at YugaByte, the company behind the open source YugaByte DB project that is bringing together NoSQL and SQL in a single globally distributed database.

Karthik Ranganathan presents 8 Events:

• Architecting distributed data for GDPR at Silicon Valley

• How YugaByte DB implements distributed PostgreSQL at Silicon Valley

• Performant multi-region Postgres using distributed data storage engine at Postgres Conference

• Designing database schemas for GDPR-compliance and security at Postgres Conference

• 6 Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database at Silicon Valley 2019

• The Biography of a Modern Cloud Native Application at Silicon Valley 2022

• Future of Distributed SQL: 3 Things I’m Most Excited About at Silicon Valley 2023

• Embrace, Extend, Evolve: Making PostgreSQL Work for Cloud Native Applications at Silicon Valley 2023