Ashwin Agrawal
Technology Lead (Senior Staff) at VMware
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAshwin Agrawal is a Technology Lead (Senior Staff) based in Palo Alto with 11 years of experience in systems and storage engineering, currently contributing to Greenplum and PostgreSQL at VMware. He has deep expertise in block-level storage, logical volume management, checkpoints, IP-based filesystem and iSCSI replication, and a track record building massive-scale parallel database storage and transaction management. Ashwin moved from storage-heavy NAS products into stateless computing, converged orchestration, virtualization and cloud-native infrastructure, combining low-level systems programming with orchestration-level design. He reliably turns concise ideas into full-featured, production-quality implementations and thrives on high-performance, high-availability systems that manage petabytes of data. Known for hands-on leadership, he has led teams to transform data centers into cloud-ready stateless compute platforms while maintaining strong collaborative relationships. His unusual blend of block-storage internals and cloud orchestration gives him a practical edge when optimizing distributed databases for analytics at scale.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science“2014 UC Berkeley Engineering Leadership Professional Program”Mount Carmel SchoolBE, Computers, BE, Computers at Maharashtra Institute of TechnologyRLT College
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Github Skills (43)
greenplum10
parallel10
postgresql10
data-warehouse10
warehouse10
machine-learning10
data-platform10
analytics10
mpp10
sql10
database10
upstream9
pivotal8
jsonb8
similarity7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ashwinstar/gpdb
Oct 2015 - Feb 2025
Pivotal Greenplum Database
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 1420 pushes in 9 years 4 months
sqlgreenplumpivotaldatabasegreenplum-database
ashwinstar/gpdb-postgres-merge
Oct 2017 - Aug 2020
Scratch repository for merging upstream Postgres into GPDB
Contributions:10 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 10 months
gpdbupstreammergingdatabasepostgres
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