About

Srinivasan S.A is a seasoned software developer with over 5 years of experience in researching and developing modern database engines based on PostgreSQL. He specializes in developing and maintaining high-performance and scalable applications. Currently, he is working as a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, where he is responsible for MySQL Heatwave. Srinivasan is an honest and informed optimist who loves to engage in conversations on technology, football, and books. He has a strong background in systems programming, high-performance computing, database design, and internals. He is proficient in C/C++, code generation using LLVM, and Java. Before joining Oracle, Srinivasan worked as a Technical Lead at KLA and as a Research and Development Engineer at Zoho. At Zoho, he developed a columnar database on top of PostgreSQL, improving OLAP query performance by more than 10x. He also conducted research on in-memory database engines and contributed to PostgreSQL. As a Project Intern at Zoho, he created a PostgreSQL extension that cached intermediate results and expressions involved in a query and reused them in successive query iterations. Srinivasan holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science Engineering from Sri Sairam Engineering College. He has relevant experience of 6.87 years and is proficient in MySQL, Java, C, and other tech stacks. With his expertise in software development and database design, Srinivasan is an asset to any organization.