K George
Senior Director Of Engineering at SingleStore
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolK George is a seasoned engineering leader with 30+ years building high-performance storage, backup and database systems, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at SingleStore. He has repeatedly taken products from concept to market leader—authoring most of Zmanda Recovery Manager, architecting a deduplication engine that scales to hundreds of terabytes, and creating StorSimple’s Cloud Clones/Cloud Snaps to eliminate tape-based backup. A hands-on C/C++ engineer, he has rebuilt critical rehydration and cloudsnap systems to achieve multi-fold performance gains and routinely leads global, distributed teams he hires and scales himself. He combines deep Unix, storage and database internals with cloud-native design, having implemented features leveraging AWS EBS snapshots for live MySQL backups. Known for setting up multiple India development centers and running end-to-end product operations, he pairs executive-level oversight with day-to-day technical ownership. Based in Pune, he brings rare expertise that spans low-level systems engineering, large-scale architecture, and operationalizing products across cloud and appliance environments.
4 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasB. Tech Mechanical, B. Tech Mechanical at College of Engineering TrivandrumKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Github Skills (15)
databases10
scale-out10
kubernetes10
cpp10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
sql10
paxos10
sql-database10
database10
yugabytedb9
distributed-database9
raft9
distributed-systems9
oltp9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
kkg-yb/test_ci_cpp
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
yugabyte/yugabyte-db
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
yugabytedbmission-criticalmulti-cloudcriticaldistributed-sql-database
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