About the Authors

Bharat Chandra Baddepudi is a software engineer with over 20 years of enterprise software research and development experience. Bharat holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked at large software companies as well as been in founder roles at technology startups, building expertise in various layers of the software stack. Oracle was his first dive into the software industry, where he worked on the database kernel internals and later went on to deliver the Exadata Flash Cache solutions. After that he designed and developed a document database in the Hadoop ecosystem at MapR Inc. As the founding engineer at Yugabyte next, he first contributed to the consensus layer of its distributed Postgres database engine. Taking on broader impact end to end user features, he was instrumental in providing the design and solutions for server elasticity in the cloud along with related data migration needs. Currently he is working on large scale distributed systems and document databases at LinkedIn.

He holds several patents in backend architectures, storage solutions, and cloud domains and has given talks in technical meetups along with writing blogs. He is passionate about building large-scale distributed systems that provide the backbone to various web applications and related use cases. His awareness of technological advances allows him to contribute to state-of-the-art and emerging roadmaps.