About

Vipul Sharma is a highly skilled and experienced hands-on engineer with a focus on core database development, AWS technologies, and SaaS. He is currently working as a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, where he is responsible for designing and developing the GaussDB core database engine, specifically the storage layer. With over 17 years of relevant experience, Vipul has worked on a wide range of projects, including building API ecosystems, designing and developing features for distributed database systems, and working on most layers of a database system, including store, transaction manager, parser, and logger. He also has experience with authentication protocols such as NTLM and Kerberos. Vipul is well-versed in Agile development methodologies and has served as a Scrum Master, leading a team of developers and testers for a major release. He has expertise in programming languages such as C and C++, version control systems like Rational Clearcase, Perforce, and Git, build systems such as Make and Jam, and databases like Postgres, Sybase IQ, Sybase ASE, MS SQL Server, and SQL Anywhere. He is also proficient in operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, and Windows, and debuggers like GDB, DBX, and MS Visual Studio. In his current role at Oracle, Vipul is part of the MySQL Storage team and is focused on improving the scalability of GaussDB under heavy workloads. He has also worked as a Staff Engineer at Huawei, where he was responsible for designing and developing features aimed at improving scalability of GaussDB, and as a Principal Engineer at Druva, where he led the effort to unify the end-user experience of Druva product APIs by front-ending them with an API Gateway. Overall, Vipul Sharma is a highly skilled and experienced engineer with a strong focus on core database development, AWS technologies, and SaaS. He has a proven track record of success in designing and developing features for distributed database systems and improving their scalability under heavy workloads.