Alan Caldera
Distinguished Engineer at Yugabyte
Kingsland, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Caldera is a Distinguished Engineer with nearly 40 years of deep database expertise and a recent focus on distributed SQL as a senior leader at Yugabyte. He joined Yugabyte as the company’s first Sales Engineer in 2018 and now shapes product and technical strategy for YugabyteDB, leveraging hands-on experience across Informix, DB2, ParAccel/Redshift, InfluxDB and Oracle. Alan combines development, pre- and post-sales engineering, and professional services experience—having built datablades, custom UDFs, installation frameworks and performance tuning practices at IBM, Actian and Informix. He’s comfortable both in the field with customers and in the codebase, having redesigned installers, led extensibility projects and driven large enterprise migrations. Based in Kingsland, Georgia, he brings a rare mix of deep systems-level engineering and customer-facing sales engineering that accelerates product adoption for mission-critical transactional applications. An understated differentiator: decades of legacy-system modernization work give him sharp instincts for migrating complex, high-risk databases to modern cloud-native platforms.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
crossplane10
scale-out10
sql10
cpp10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
sql-database10
database10
yugabytedb9
distributed-database9
database-deployment7
terraform-module7
k8s6
kapacitor6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ajcaldera1/yugabyte-db
Nov 2018 - Jul 2026
YugaByte DB is a transactional, high-performance database for building distributed cloud services. It supports Cassandra-compatible and Redis-compatible APIs, with PostgreSQL in Beta.
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 8 months
saga-patterncloud-servicesshardingdistributed-systemsdatabase
ajcaldera1/yb-voyager
Aug 2024 - Jan 2026
Data migration tool for YugabyteDB database
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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