Ashutosh Bapat

Ashutosh Bapat has a diverse work experience spanning various companies and roles. Ashutosh is currently working as a Principal Software Engineer and Manager at EDB since August 2021. Previously, they held the role of a Major Contributor at PostgreSQL Global Development Group starting from August 2009.

Between February 2020 and August 2021, Ashutosh worked as a Senior PostgreSQL Architect at 2ndQuadrant, an EDB company. In this role, they focused on developing features for bi-directional replication and provided L2 support to solve complex problems.

From September 2018 to January 2020, Ashutosh worked as a Staff Software Engineer at HORTONWORKS DATA PLATFORM INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED. Ashutosh primarily worked on replication and metastore for the Hive team, dealing with areas such as statistics replication, transactional table replication, and implementing high availability using ZooKeeper.

Before that, they held the position of a Technical Architect at EnterpriseDB from September 2009 to August 2018, where they worked on PostgreSQL and its derivative products like Postgres-XC and Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Ashutosh contributed to query processing and stored procedure languages.

Ashutosh also had a role as a Core Team Member at Postgres-XC Development Group from April 2011 to March 2014, where they focused on distributed query processing, release management, and creating product roadmaps.

Prior to that, they worked as a Software Engineer at Sybase from August 2005 to September 2009, where they worked on the storage module of ASE and collaborated on features, release stabilization, and prototyping.

Outside the industry, Ashutosh worked as a Visiting Professor at College of Engineering Pune from July 2005 to September 2007, teaching statistics and being involved in exams and industrial projects. Ashutosh also served as a Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from August 2003 to May 2005, assisting students and evaluating their lab assignments and projects.

Ashutosh Bapat earned an MTech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from 2003 to 2005. Prior to that, they completed their B.E. in Computer Engineering from COEP Technological University, from 1999 to 2003. There is no information provided regarding Ashutosh's education before their undergraduate studies. Ashutosh also holds a certification as a PostgreSQL 9.3 Associate from EnterpriseDB, obtained in the year 2014.