Karthik Ranganathan

Karthik Ranganathan

Karthik Ranganathan is the co-founder and CTO at Yugabyte, the company behind YugabyteDB, a transactional distributed SQL database for cloud native applications. Ranganathan received his BS and MS in CS from IIT-M and UT Austin. Ranganathan was one of the original database engineers at Facebook responsible for building distributed databases such as Cassandra and HBase. He is an Apache HBase committer, and also an early contributor to Cassandra, before it was open-sourced by Facebook. 

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