Cyrus Wadia
Chief Legal Officer at Mechanical Orchard
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCyrus Wadia is a chief legal officer and seasoned technology lawyer with 11 years in senior in-house roles and over two decades of litigation and IP experience. He has led global legal, privacy, security, and people functions for high-growth cloud and open-source companies, including steering Yugabyte through a $48M Series B-1 and $188M Series C and managing a major acquisition and global expansion. At Pivotal he ran worldwide IP and open source strategy, helped take the company public, and was principal counsel for Spring and large-scale code contributions to the Apache ecosystem. Comfortable translating complex technical and product risks into practical legal and compliance programs, he builds playbooks, templates, and cross-functional processes that scale revenue and engineering velocity. Based in San Francisco, Cyrus blends courtroom-honed advocacy with executive-level strategic counsel across M&A, governance, and global data protection. An early career extern at the California Supreme Court and long tenure advising software engineers give him uncommon depth at the intersection of law, engineering, and business.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoJ.D., J.D. at University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)
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Github Skills (18)
database9
high-performance9
cpp9
sql-database8
scale-out8
sql8
databases8
kubernetes7
paxos7
yugabytedb7
cloud-native7
distributed-database7
raft6
distributed-systems6
oltp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
yugabyte/yugabyte-db
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push in 1 day
yugabytedbmission-criticalmulti-cloudcriticaldistributed-sql-database
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