Jags Ramnarayan
Co-Founder, CTO (Acquired By MariaDB Plc) at SkySQL
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJags Ramnarayan is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years building high-performance data platforms and scaling global engineering teams, now co-founder and CTO of SkySQL in Portland. He has repeatedly pioneered in-memory and unified analytics systems—co-founding GemFire (Apache Geode) and SnappyData, driving innovations like approximate query processing and Spark on Kubernetes. His blend of product, architecture and go-to-market experience includes senior roles at MariaDB, Pivotal, TIBCO and startups where he led cloud-native, AI-ready data products and restructured engineering for scale. Comfortable across research, open-source and enterprise sales cycles, he pairs deep distributed-systems expertise with an MBA-backed business sensibility. A less obvious strength: he repeatedly turns academic ideas into commercial platforms, publishing in top venues while convincing large enterprises to adopt novel data architectures.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, management, MBA, management at Oregon Health & Science UniversityMS credits, Computer Science, MS credits, Computer Science at OGI school of Science and EngineeringBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Govt College of Engg, India
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Github Skills (52)
apache-spark10
transaction10
spark10
predict10
memory-database10
analytics10
stream10
scale10
database10
snappydata10
ai9
rest-api8
spark-jobserver8
scala7
rest7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skysqlinc/skysql-ai-crew
May 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
mariadb-corporation/skysql-docs
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Repository for all SkySQL public documentation
Contributions:6 reviews, 10 PRs, 33 pushes in 11 months
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