Shankar Iyer
Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolShankar Iyer is a software engineer based in Bengaluru with over two decades of deep experience in database and clustering technologies, currently contributing at ClickHouse. He has built core database infrastructure at Oracle (RAC & Clusterware), designed high-availability MySQL systems at Google and AWS, and worked on financial data warehousing and trading systems earlier in his career. Between 2024–2025 he pursued an entrepreneurial project, Building MyVector, demonstrating a recent shift into product-focused engineering alongside his platform expertise. His background blends low-level C/C++ systems work with cloud-native database development, making him adept at performance-critical, distributed systems. Shankar also holds an MS in Data Analytics from BITS Pilani and brings a rare combination of legacy system experience (VAX/OpenVMS era) and modern cloud database engineering.
1 year of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor Of Computer Science (BCS) : 1991-1994, Bachelor Of Computer Science (BCS) : 1991-1994 at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (46)
big-data10
analytics10
olap10
mpp10
sql10
ai10
database-management10
embedded10
rust10
cpp10
cloud-native10
dbms10
database10
clickhouse10
nearest-neighbors9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shankar-iyer/ClickHouse
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system
Contributions:200 pushes, 88 branches in 1 year 4 months
clickhousedatabase-management
shankar-iyer/clickhouse-docs
Aug 2025 - Sep 2025
Official documentation for ClickHouse - the fastest and most resource efficient real-time data warehouse and open-source database.
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
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