Kannan Muthukkaruppan
Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Yugabyte
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKannan Muthukkaruppan is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with over two decades of experience building databases, large-scale storage systems, language runtimes and compilers, and currently serves as Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Yugabyte in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led production deployments at petabyte scale—most notably driving HBase adoption and enhancements at Facebook—and later steered core data-path innovations like deduplication and erasure coding at Nutanix. At Oracle he was a principal developer on the PL/SQL VM and native compiler, giving him deep systems and VM-level expertise that informs Yugabyte’s design choices. Kannan is drawn to hard engineering problems and to working with passionate teams, blending hands-on technical leadership with product and company-building instincts. His career shows a rare continuity from low-level language/runtime work through distributed storage and cloud-native databases, reflecting both breadth and systems-level depth. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs academic training from IIT Madras and UC Berkeley with a proven track record of shipping resilient, high-performance infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyIndian Institute of Technology Madras
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Github Skills (26)
c-language10
back-end-development10
databases10
sql10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
devops10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
scripting9
build-automation9
cloud-native9
shell9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kmuthukk/yugabyte-db
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
YugaByte DB is the open source, transactional, high-performance database for building internet-scale, globally-distributed apps. Data modeling freedom with transactional NoSQL and distributed SQL APIs.
Contributions:15 pushes in 1 day
distributed-systemsdatabasetikvpostgresqlaerospike
kmuthukk/ybtop
Apr 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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