Govind Kamat
Database Engineer
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarGovind Kamat is a Database Engineer based in California with 11 years of focused experience and a broader technical career spanning decades across infrastructure and performance roles. He currently builds and optimizes database solutions at Amazon Web Services after honing performance and systems expertise at Cloudera and Yahoo!. His background includes early engineering and management roles at Tensilica and Synopsys, giving him a strong foundation in low-level systems and team leadership. Known for translating performance bottlenecks into scalable database designs, he brings a pragmatic balance of hands-on tuning and architectural thinking. While not a prolific public GitHub contributor, his long tenure at major platform companies signals deep, production-hardened experience operating data systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (52)
meilisearch10
search-engine10
opensearch10
benchmark10
benchmarking10
opensearch-dashboards10
java10
performance-testing10
yahoo10
dashboard9
analytics9
restful9
elasticsearch9
ksh8
linux8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gkamat/opensearch-benchmark-workloads
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 PRs, 300 pushes, 55 branches in 1 year 11 months
gkamat/opensearch-benchmark
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
OpenSearch Benchmark - a community driven, open source project to run performance tests for OpenSearch
Contributions:502 pushes, 99 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 10 months
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