Himanchali is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting, scaling, and troubleshooting data stores and distributed systems. He has progressed from DB engineer to manager and staff roles, leading database reliability, automation, and cost-effective capacity planning across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aerospike, Druid, Vertica and related tooling. Known for deep incident diagnosis and RCA-driven improvements, he’s worked as a senior escalation engineer and TAM for critical APAC customers, turning support cases into product and documentation enhancements. He also brings strong DevOps and SRE skills—CI/CD, containerization, ProxySQL, TimescaleDB and custom PostgreSQL extensions—gained through freelance and in-house roles. A regular speaker at conferences like PGConf and Rootconf, he blends operator-level expertise with a developer’s curiosity for building reproducible, automated systems. Notably, he often converts escalations into lasting tooling and process improvements that reduce future toil.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
FPGDST Software Technology, FPGDST Software Technology at CDAC
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
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