Prasad Varakur

Prasad is an Engineering & Product Management leader with over 20 years of experience, and a technology enthusiast in Database internals (Relational/SQL, NoSQL, BigData, Analytics), Data/Storage management platforms and Cloud technologies.

He has led teams & architected key technology innovations at Novell, SAP/Sybase, Dell/EMC, Huawei, Couchbase, Veritas such as, Novell’s NFS server, Sybase’s Database Server Cluster Edition, Huawei’s petabyte scale analytical database server, high performance SQL-on-Hadoop & SQL-on-NoSQL technologies, & first ARM64 port of CoreOS (a container based OS).

He has also sphere headed rebranding efforts of Couchbase server as Engagement Database platform (and doubled number of customers), and business operationalization of Veritas’s multi cloud data management platform.

Prasad holds 11 patents in Databases and distributed systems. He has conceptualized & contributed foundational works of Parametric Query Optimization problem as his thesis, and holds Masters degree in computer science from IIT Kanpur.