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Ravi Kumar

@ravikumar

Staff engineer. Distributed databases.

Joined February 2026
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Moved 200TB of data between databases with zero downtime. Dual-write → shadow reads → cutover. Boring engineering at its finest.
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CockroachDB for global distribution, Postgres for everything else. That's my database decision tree.
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Just migrated 2TB of data from MySQL to Postgres. Zero downtime. Dual-write strategy ftw.
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