Samay Sharma
Director, ClickHouse Core Reliability
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamay Sharma is a hands-on product and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and operating distributed databases and cloud data services, currently directing Core Reliability at ClickHouse. He combines deep Postgres expertise—having worked on Citus and long-term contributions to Postgres ecosystems—with leadership roles at Tembo and Microsoft where he led Postgres open source work and customer-facing solutions for Azure. Samay began as engineer #3 at Citus Data, helped scale Postgres horizontally for hundreds of customers, and has applied low-level storage and file-system expertise (e.g., contributions to the cstore_fdw columnar storage extension). He is passionate about making databases easier for developers, frequently speaks on Postgres topics, and has run both product and reliability organizations end-to-end. Based in San Francisco, he blends startup grit with large-company engineering processes to ship resilient, performant data platforms. Beyond titles, his background shows a rare mix of kernel-to-cloud experience: from teaching OS and AI early in his career to shipping distributed database storage features in production.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Secondary, Senior Secondary at Campion school, BhopalBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Hindi, English
Github Skills (11)
c1710
foreign-data-wrapper10
databases10
webextension10
file-management10
postgresql10
c1110
sql10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
citusdata/cstore_fdw
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
Columnar storage extension for Postgres built as a foreign data wrapper. Check out https://github.com/citusdata/citus for a modernized columnar storage implementation built as a table access method.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 2 months
Contributions summary:Samay primarily focused on extending the functionality of the `cstore_fdw` extension for PostgreSQL. Their contributions included adding features to automatically determine file names, deleting files on `DROP FOREIGN TABLE`, and correcting error handling. Furthermore, they applied code review feedback and updated the extension's versioning and update scripts. The work centers around managing the underlying storage and file system interactions of the columnar store.
access-methodmethodcolumnar-storagecitusdatabase
samay-sharma/postgres
Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
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:5 PRs, 65 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 4 months
patchgit-repositorypull-requestspostgrespostgresql
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