Amit Kulkarni
Director, Engineering at Couchbase
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Kulkarni is an engineering leader with 8 years of industry experience now serving as Director of Engineering at Couchbase, where he progressed through technical and management roles from Senior Software Engineer to Director. He specializes in distributed databases, NoSQL, cloud storage, file systems and vector databases, blending deep systems programming and parallel computing expertise with practical product delivery. Amit’s background includes hands-on storage and database engineering at NetApp and Druva and advanced systems research roots from IIT Kanpur, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and production-scale execution. Known for translating complex distributed systems challenges into scalable architectures, he also brings an uncommon focus on applying advanced computer architecture principles to database performance. Based in Bengaluru, he combines technical leadership with mentorship to build high-performing teams that ship robust, cloud-native data platforms.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurBachlor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachlor of Engineering, Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Github Skills (11)
couchbase10
sql10
nosql10
server10
database10
asciidoc9
citrix7
h23
react3
typescript2
query-engine2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
amithk/desert_escape
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
amithk/cb-indexing-log-analysis
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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