Speaker: Sumedh Pathak

Sumedh is a co-founder and the VP of Engineering at Citus Data, where he leads the effort to make sure the Citus scale-out database is useful for application developers, so they can focus on their application and not their infrastructure. Before Citus, Sumedh worked as a software engineer at Amazon on the shopping cart app, working with distributed data stores like Dynamo and relational data stores such as Oracle. Sumedh has an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford and a B.S. from University of Minnesota and he's passionate about Postgres and distributed databases.