Shankar Iyer
Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolShankar Iyer is a software engineer based in Bengaluru with over two decades of deep experience in database and clustering technologies, currently contributing at ClickHouse. He has built core database infrastructure at Oracle (RAC & Clusterware), designed high-availability MySQL systems at Google and AWS, and worked on financial data warehousing and trading systems earlier in his career. Between 2024–2025 he pursued an entrepreneurial project, Building MyVector, demonstrating a recent shift into product-focused engineering alongside his platform expertise. His background blends low-level C/C++ systems work with cloud-native database development, making him adept at performance-critical, distributed systems. Shankar also holds an MS in Data Analytics from BITS Pilani and brings a rare combination of legacy system experience (VAX/OpenVMS era) and modern cloud database engineering.
1 year of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor Of Computer Science (BCS) : 1991-1994, Bachelor Of Computer Science (BCS) : 1991-1994 at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (17)
bigquery10
mysql10
big-data10
analytics10
olap10
mpp10
sql10
ai10
clickhouse-client10
embedded10
rust10
cpp10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
dbms10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
shankar-iyer/ClickHouse
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system
Contributions:14 pushes, 10 branches in 23 days
ClickHouse/ClickHouse
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system
Contributions:14 reviews, 7 PRs, 31 comments in 26 days
mppclickhouse-clientanalyticsdbmsmysql
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