About

Kuntal Ghosh is a highly skilled Senior Software Development Engineer with over 7 years of specialized experience in the Relational database industry. He is a PostgreSQL contributor and a database kernel engineer, with a particular focus on query processing. Kuntal is adept in C development and PostgreSQL, and has worked on a variety of projects at Amazon and EDB. Currently, Kuntal is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon, working on the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Database. He is part of the team working on Babelfish, a new extension for PostgreSQL that enables PG to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server. With Babelfish, PG can directly communicate with a SQL Server client using TDS protocol. Additionally, PG can also parse and execute a SQL command/procedure/function written in TSQL syntax. Kuntal has made significant contributions to this project, and his work has been featured on the AWS website. Prior to his current role, Kuntal was a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where he worked on a variety of projects related to PostgreSQL. He also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at EDB, where he contributed to open source PostgreSQL development, fixed bugs, reviewed patches, and handled customer escalations. At EDB, Kuntal was part of the team designing a new storage named “zheap” for PostgreSQL to control the amount of bloat (undo based storage). Kuntal has a Master of Engineering (M.E.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), where he specialized in Robust Query Optimization. He also has a B-Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Institute of Engineering and Management. Kuntal's technical skills include software engineering, SQL, AWS, Postgres, and test. He is a highly experienced professional with a proven track record of success in the Relational database industry.