Karthik Ranganathan
Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Yugabyte
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Ranganathan is a veteran distributed systems engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building database and large-scale infrastructure at companies including Facebook, Nutanix, and Microsoft. As Co‑Founder and Co‑CEO (formerly CTO) of Yugabyte, he helps drive the open-source YugabyteDB project—a cloud-native distributed SQL database—translating deep systems expertise into a production-grade, developer-friendly platform. His career blends hands-on engineering (HBase, Cassandra, search indexing and reliability at Facebook) with product and technical leadership, focusing on zero-data-loss storage and performance at scale. Based in Palo Alto with graduate training from UT Austin and an IIT Madras undergraduate degree, he pairs academic rigor with practical execution and a knack for turning complex distributed problems into usable cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
distributed-systems10
database-design10
sql10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
database-testing9
cmake9
database-administration9
python8
javas8
java8
replication6
database6
jamstack6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rkarthik007/yugabyte-db
Dec 2017 - Jun 2022
YugaByte Database, Community Edition
Contributions:8 PRs, 34 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 6 months
databaseyugabytecommunity-edition
yugabyte/yugastore
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
This is a full-stack, sample e-commerce app built using React, Express, NodeJS and YugabyteDB.
Contributions:27 commits, 3 PRs, 29 pushes in 24 days
yugabytedbe-commerce-appexpressmongoosereactjs
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