Kai Franz
Software Engineer II at Yugabyte
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Franz is a Software Engineer II based in Palo Alto with 11 years of experience building database and compiler-focused systems. He moved from research at CMU's Database Group—working under Andy Pavlo and Todd Mowry—to applied engineering roles at Yugabyte, bringing deep expertise in DB internals and query compilation. Kai implemented ML-driven tuning for Amazon Redshift as an intern, demonstrating a blend of systems engineering and data-driven optimization. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he has a track record of turning academic ideas into scalable, operational database features.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The Harker SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (10)
databases10
postgresql10
sql10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
cprogramming-language9
distributed-database9
c-language9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kai-franz/udf
Mar 2023 - May 2023
Making UDFs faster
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
kai-franz/postgres
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
Contributions:26 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
patchgit-repositorypull-requestspostgrespostgresql
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