Amitanand Aiyer
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Yugabyte
Singapore
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Top SchoolAmitanand Aiyer is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Singapore with nine years of professional experience and a deep research-rooted background, including a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UT Austin and early research roles at Facebook on HBase. He has strong expertise in distributed databases and cloud-native systems, having spent nearly a decade building and scaling YugabyteDB after prior engineering work on Borgmaster scheduling at Google. Amitanand blends research rigor with production engineering, repeatedly moving systems from prototype to high-availability deployments used by large enterprises. He is comfortable across the full stack of distributed systems design, consensus and storage engines, and operational scalability. An intriguing and less obvious facet is his long arc from research internships at top labs (Microsoft Research, HP Labs) to hands-on product engineering, showing a sustained ability to translate academic ideas into robust, industry-grade software.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (64)
kubernetes10
oltp10
databases10
distributed-systems10
paxos10
scale-out10
sql10
yugabytedb10
raft10
cpp10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
database10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yugabyte/cassandra-loader
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Delimited file loader for YugaByte Cloud Query Language (YCQL)
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
queryyugabytedelimitedquery-languageloader
amitanandaiyer/yugabyte-db
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
Amitanand's fork: YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
Contributions:37 pushes, 46 branches in 5 months
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