Aditya Alurkar
Researching my "Next play" at Self-Employed
Researching my "Next play"
"Simplicity" is my mantra. I enjoy the dynamics of smaller companies and groups. I am a firm believer in teamwork.

Deeply experienced in early stage startups and hyper-growth in highly successful internet companies, I have "lived through most of it (if not all)."  I can take on tasks including the nitty gritty of designing and implementing systems for data processing at scale,  to understanding the technical and human challenges in building a high performing globally distributed organization.

I am now involved in developing technology and solutions to help support data growth at hyper-scale. Our technology will help any data-centric application running on scale-out servers connect to any data stores with guaranteed performance characteristics.
Self-Employed
I am taking the time to research "what comes next" on a full-time basis.
San Francisco Bay Area
Researching my "Next play"
Metta Data Consulting
Assist and advise various startups. This ranges from investing, brainstorming about strategy, architecture, collaborating to come up with tag-lines, and anything that can help a startup.
San Francisco Bay Area
Do-er of all things
rENIAC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/reniac-inc
Advise and assist the founding team on solution development and application of technology to address customer needs.
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Advisor - Solution and Technology
rENIAC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/reniac-inc
Design and develop solutions, leveraging our core IP to overcome scalability challenges in data management.
San Francisco Bay Area
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VP Solutions
CompilerWorks
https://www.linkedin.com/company/compilerworks
Help the CEO in doing everything else (aside from writing Java code)
Help the CTO in prioritizing what fire to put out first
Help all of the team members be as successful as they can be at putting out fires and starting a few good ones
Help to grow and build an amazing team of really passionate engineers
San Francisco Bay Area
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Chief Operating Officer
CompilerWorks
https://www.linkedin.com/company/compilerworks
Worked on turning really cool technology into Products which make our customers smile (and on many occasions scratch their head because they did not think this was possible).
San Francisco Bay Area
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V.P. Product and Customer Success
IMAGINE CHOCOLATE
https://www.linkedin.com/company/imagine-chocolate
Help with strategic initiatives. Helping Imagine leverage technology to scale operations.
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Advisor
Home
Going to take some time off to figure out what comes next.
Part-time dad, Part-time husband, Full-time ponderer
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin
- I benchmarked, designed, setup our Aster Data based MPP data warehouse solution. In addition to initial setup I manage the Aster cluster.
- I guide engineering teams make the best data storage/retrieval design decisions.
- I manage change management process for all the production databases.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Database Architect
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin
LinkedIn is, well LinkedIn, the worlds largest professional networking site with over 50 Million.	
I was responsible for the Data Architecture within LinkedIn. I worked for the CTO office which defined goals and best practices to support the scalability and reliability needs. The CTO office also acted as the bridge between Engineering and Operations, this included setting up performance labs and metrics that were to be used to ensure that feature sets and releases will scale and would deploy without affecting performance and reliability in production. I was also responsible for the architecture to support the disaster/recovery needs and high-availability needs of the databases and data stores that supported LinkedIn.
Technical environment: Oracle, Oracle Enterprise Manager, MySQL, Java, KETL, Solaris,  OSX
San Francisco Bay Area
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Database Architect
SourceForge, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sourceforge-inc.
Sourceforge.net was the worlds largest Opensource repository in the world, it was home to over 100,000 projects and had over a Million registered users. The site served more than a Million software downloads per day and had at least one user come to the site for every country in the world, any given day.
I was part of a small team of 4 that supported the SF.net infrastructure. I was the only DBA in the team and was the primary point of contact for any and all database needs.  I worked closely with the QoS team to ensure the reliability of the service. During the 4+ years at SF.net I witnessed over 4X increase in popularity of Opensource software and site usage growth. A major part of my daily routine was troubleshooting, and problem-solving.
Technical environment: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, Linux(Redhat,Fedora), Apache, PHP, OSX
San Francisco Bay Area
Sr. Database Administrator
Zembu Labs
Zembu was a startup that was developing a on-demand database replication platform. The idea of the system was to push data to the edge of the network and have databases self-populate with relevant and required data.  Put simply Zembu was to databases what Akamai is to content.
I worked on different teams within Zembu. I served on the operations team and was responsible to setup a 5 server asynchronous multi-master replication using Oracle replication. On the professional services team I met with customers and translated business requirements into technical requirement and feature requests.
Technical environment: Oracle, PostgreSQL, Solaris, Linux(Debian), Windows, ER-Studio
San Francisco Bay Area
Sr. Database Administrator
Astata
Astata was a startup that initially worked on a contract to develop a web-based community application for students. Astata eventually moved into a niche market of writing web-apps and apps for wireless devices. They had some of the first apps targeted for Blackberry.
I inherited an inefficiently designed database that had to be re-engineered such that the monolithic database would be split into multiple databases with data flowing between the databases via replication. The redesign has to take into consideration privacy requirements.  I also investigated and acquired tools to monitor, troubleshoot Oracle.
Technical environment: Oracle, Linux, Windows, ASP, Quest Instance Monitor, Quest spotlight, Quest SQLXpert.
New York City Metropolitan Area
Database Administrator
Misc Contract Positions
Consulted with various organizations. Responsibilities included software development, systems design. Working with a wide spectrum of customers and systems helped me understand my strengths and weaknesses and helped me focus in on Database technologies and implementations. I work on SQL development, modeling, scripting for backup/restore and SQL tuning.
Consultant
M.S
Management Information Systems
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Fairleigh Dickinson University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/fairleigh-dickinson-university/
B.S
Computer Science
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Goa University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/goa-university/
HSSC
Science
M.E.S. College
Health
kindness.org
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kindnessorg
Help in reminding people that "being kind" is the default setting.
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Member Board Of Directors
Education
Dalai Lama Center for Peace+Education
Assisted with the social media strategy to sustain the momentum built during the Connecting for Change, Vancouver Peace Summit 2009. Focused on using technology as a tool to facilitate cross-sector collaboration between the professionals, who find themselves wanting to "give back to society" but don't necessarily knowing "how-to" and social innovators who know "how-to". Goal was to help grow the "Connecting for Change" LinkedIn group and make it a "go-to" place for professionals and social innovators to find each other, learn about each others strength, and collaborate.
Connector
Health
charity: water
https://www.linkedin.com/company/charitywater
Help charity:water in reaching its goal to provide access to clean water to almost 1 Billion people. I am a member of the "Wells" program which helps charity:water meet its goal of ensuring that 100% of funds raised through campaigns go towards water projects
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Wells Members
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanlwang
San Francisco Bay Area
Alan Wang
Founder, Owner, Operating Principal at Alan Wang Realty Group and Keller Williams Santa Clara Valley
https://in.linkedin.com/in/raviraj-nair-87b93aa
Maharashtra, India
Raviraj Nair
VP - Core Payments Production Management, JP Morgan
https://fi.linkedin.com/in/sudarsana-reddy-kadiri-541a3835
Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri
Research Fellow at Aalto University
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrishi-shelar-9b988588
Greater Seattle Area
Hrishi Shelar
Senior PM, Azure Space and Spectrum
https://in.linkedin.com/in/urvish-mahida
Pune
Urvish Mahida
Member Of Technical Staff at PhonePe
https://za.linkedin.com/in/anil-sooklal-47a7a937
South Africa
Anil Sooklal
Deputy Director General,International Relations and Cooperation
BRICS & IBSA Sherpa, IORA Focal Point. Adjunct Professor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunjainus
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Arun Jain
Engineering Leader | Solution Architect | Customer Success | Digital Strategy | Cloud | Data Platforms | Data Analytics | Automation | Innovation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikunjnirmal
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Nikunj Nirmal
Principal – Technology Solutions and Strategic programs (Amazon) | Chief Technology Officer | Head of Digital Transformation and Innovation Labs
https://www.linkedin.com/in/goutham-puppala-97b3a21
Basking Ridge, NJ
Goutham Puppala
Chief architect at Sensoriant Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjun-malhotra-5b07005
Saratoga, CA
Arjun Malhotra
Chairman Magic Software
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/robboyko
Vancouver, BC
Rob Boyko
Business & Market Development Leadership, Technology Commercialization, & Start-Ups Advisor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulramesh
Redmond, WA
Rahul Ramesh
Engineering@Confluent
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenzhangny
New York, NY
Karen Zhang
Product Manager, Zip
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amulbpatel
San Francisco Bay Area
Amul Patel
Director, Product Integration & Delivery, Health Innovation Technology at Blue Shield of California
https://in.linkedin.com/in/pranjal-kamra-365355a0
Raipur
Pranjal Kamra
Building Finology.in. Early Stage Investor.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trounce
Palo Alto, CA
David Trounce
Director Commercial Analytics at YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zzkaru
San Francisco Bay Area
Zoher Karu
Digital & data-driven transformation executive
https://www.linkedin.com/in/esharaval
Seattle, WA
Esha Raval
Senior Software Engineer at Google | Ex-Microsoft | Ex-Amazon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelasong01
Cupertino, CA
Angela Song
Spark AR Creator Platform
https://www.linkedin.com/in/viken-eldemir-493182
San Francisco, CA
Viken Eldemir
President, Global Field Operations
Jonathan Goldman
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Adi is very capable and has a can-do attitude. He has done it
all--from building servers to setting up new advanced distributed
databases. He is a great resource and a pleasure to be around. I highly recommend him. Mike Greenfield
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Adi is both a detail-oriented, hands-on DBA who knows his stuff, and a visionary, innovative data architect who crafts clever, elegant solutions to complex technical problems.  And he's a lot of fun to work with!
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Senior cost engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
The LI Massage Team
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Network Operations Center (NOC) Professionals
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Collective Creativity
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Chief Data Officer (CDO) 🟥
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Former Zembu Employees
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Technology Gamechangers
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Linux Admins
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The World Café
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TDWI: Analytics and Data Management Discussion Group
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The Do Work Project
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Postgres
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Friends of LinkedIn
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Surya for Congress
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Data Warehouse Architects
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