Jiten Vaidya
Advisor Executive Coach Board Member at PlanetScale
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiten Vaidya is a seasoned technology leader, co-founder and former CEO of PlanetScale, with 16 years of experience building and operating large-scale backend and infrastructure systems. He helped bring Vitess from Google/Youtube scale to the broader open-source community, contributing backend fixes and MySQL clustering improvements that power horizontal scaling for many high-traffic services. Before PlanetScale he led SRE/DBA teams at YouTube and held senior engineering roles at Dropbox and Google, plus a stint improving VA services with the U.S. Digital Service. Now an independent advisor, executive coach and board member based in San Jose, he combines hands-on systems craftsmanship with startup scaling and governance experience. Trained originally as a chemical engineer at IIT Bombay, he’s comfortable translating complex distributed systems problems into pragmatic operational solutions. An uncommon thread through his career is shipping durable automation and release tooling that quietly enables massive online services to run reliably.
16 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Github Skills (10)
databases10
go10
database-administration10
mysql10
database10
sha9
api8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
apidoc8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 12 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jiten contributed to the Vitess project by implementing and modifying backend components related to database clustering and MySQL interaction. Their work includes adding an "init_config" option to the `mysqlctl` command for initializing MySQL configurations, and modifying the `DemoteMaster` function to stop queries and set the database to read-only during reparenting. They also addressed parser issues, and made other minor code adjustments and fixes.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
jvaidya/vitess-tools
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
Vitess Tools
Contributions:42 commits, 3 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years
vitessvite
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