Sushant Mishra
Director Of Engineering at Yugabyte
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSushant Mishra is a Director of Engineering based in Sunnyvale with 15+ years designing and shipping networked systems and infrastructure software. He leads engineering at Yugabyte after six years managing teams and services at AWS, bringing deep hands-on experience from low-level networking and device driver work at Oracle and earlier telecom and embedded systems roles. His career shows a steady progression from R&D engineer to senior technical leader, with particular strength in Layer 2/3 networking, user-space drivers, and fault-tolerant system features. Known for solving tricky interoperability and resource-cleanup problems, he combines pragmatic engineering with operational rigor to deliver production-ready distributed systems. He holds technical roots from IIT (BHU) Varanasi and brings the discipline of embedded and networking domains to cloud-native database infrastructure.
4 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
oltp10
databases10
distributed-systems10
paxos10
scale-out10
sql10
yugabytedb10
raft10
cpp10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
database10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
yugabyte/HdrHistogram_c
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
C port of the HdrHistogram
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 comments in 1 day
yugabyte/yugabyte-db
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
Contributions:72 reviews, 294 comments, 472 issues in 3 years 6 months
yugabytedbmission-criticalmulti-cloudcriticaldistributed-sql-database
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