Kuntal Ghosh
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKuntal Ghosh is a Senior Software Development Engineer with nine years of deep expertise in relational databases, specializing in PostgreSQL kernel development and C systems programming. He has driven core storage and recovery work—such as zheap, WAL, and tuple locking—at EDB and now contributes to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and the Babelfish project at AWS that enables PostgreSQL to speak T-SQL/TDS for SQL Server compatibility. His background blends hands-on product engineering, open-source contributions, and customer-facing escalation fixes, backed by an M.E. from IISc in robust query optimization. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a rare combination of low-level database internals knowledge and practical experience enabling cross-vendor interoperability in production systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.E.), Computer Science and Engineering, Robust Query Optimization, Master of Engineering (M.E.), Computer Science and Engineering, Robust Query Optimization at Indian Institute of ScienceB-Tech, Computer Science Engineering, B-Tech, Computer Science Engineering at Institute of Engineering and Management
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (27)
postgresql10
compass10
heap10
undo10
database10
in-place10
babelfish9
foreign-data-wrapper9
compatibility8
foreign8
act6
ipython6
tmux5
prompt5
statusbar5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EnterpriseDB/zheap
May 2017 - Jul 2019
new heap with in-place update, powered by undo, for eventual integration into PostgreSQL
Contributions:370 commits, 154 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 1 month
placeupdatepostgresin-placepostgresql
kuntalghosh/postgresql_modified_for_babelfish
Oct 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:25 pushes, 20 branches, 19 tags in 1 year 1 month
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