Summary
Neeraj Kumar is a hands-on product builder and co-founder with over two decades of experience designing and scaling distributed databases and cloud-native platforms. He has led engineering teams from zero to sizable orgs and shipped production-grade systems at Yugabyte, SnappyData (acquired by TIBCO), VMware/GemFire, and his own startup Falarica (acquired by Yugabyte). His work spans database internals, distributed query processing, topology-aware drivers, live migration tooling, and connectors across Spark, Kafka/Debezium and Pulsar, reflecting deep systems and ecosystem engineering. A pragmatic leader who moves between zero-to-one product creation and enterprise adoption, he pairs technical authorship (four US patents) with merger-driven outcomes. Based in Pune, he blends low-level C++ and JVM-era database engineering with modern cloud-native patterns like Kubernetes and containerized query engines. An often-overlooked strength: he repeatedly converts research-grade database features into operational products that scale across multi-cloud environments.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, ECE, B.Tech, ECE at National Institute of Technology Warangal