Sayan Nandan
Founder, CEO at Skytable
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Top SchoolSayan Nandan is a founder and systems-level engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance back-end software and storage systems, and he has led Skytable from BDFL to CEO. He specializes in C, C++ and Rust—using Rust for over seven years—and focuses on low-level components, memory layout optimizations, and resilient persistence layers. As a principal contributor to Skytable, he has implemented namespace/keyspace/table management, testing, and corruption checks for a modern scalable NoSQL database designed for performance and flexibility. A committed open-source maintainer, he frames his work as a way to give back to the community while shipping production-grade tooling. Off the clock he blends technical rigor with a literary eye, sketching landscapes and flora, which informs a thoughtful, detail-oriented approach to system design.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Oregon State University
English
Github Skills (8)
database-management10
rust10
database-design10
testing9
data-structure9
data-structures9
data-storage9
memory-optimization8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
skytable/skytable
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Skytable is a modern scalable NoSQL database with BlueQL, designed for performance, scalability and flexibility. Skytable gives you spaces, models, data types, complex collections and more to build powerful experiences
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 releases, 63 reviews, 1333 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sayan contributed to the development of the Skytable NoSQL database by adding methods for creating and managing namespaces, keyspaces, and tables. The contributions also involved implementing tests for these features, demonstrating a focus on database management and functionality. Moreover, the user made improvements to the persistence and storage layer, optimizing memory layouts and incorporating checks for corrupted data.
realtimedbmsdatabase-enginenosql-databasesnapshots
ohsayan/derived
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Rust derive macros for automating the boring stuff.
Contributions:2 releases, 48 commits, 2 PRs in 4 days
macrosderiveboringruststandard-library
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