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Karthik Ranganathan is co-founder and co-CEO of Yugabyte, the company behind YugabyteDB. He was one of the original database engineers at Facebook/Meta working on distributed databases including Cassandra and HBase.
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Karthik Ranganathan is co-founder and co-CEO of Yugabyte, with roots as one of the early engineers behind Cassandra and HBase at Facebook/Meta. He speaks at the intersection of distributed SQL and production AI systems, grounding agentic-AI database architecture in at-scale engineering trade-offs. His recent keynotes have previewed future AI application stacks (DSS Asia 'Hello from the Year 2027') and argued that distributed PostgreSQL replaces standalone vector databases in serious production deployments (QCon SF 2025, DSS Atlanta 2025).
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DSS Asia 2025 Keynote: Hello from the Year 2027! A Journey Through the AI Application Architecture of the (Not Too Distant) FutureDistributed SQL Summit Asia 2025 · Aug 2025
Keynote: Ultra Resilient, Cloud Native AI with Distributed PostgreSQLDistributed SQL Summit Atlanta 2025 (co-located with KubeCon North America) · Nov 2025
pg_parquet in YugabyteDB | YFTT Ep154YugabyteDB Friday Tech Talks · Oct 2025