Aditya Karad

I am a Member of Technical Staff on Oracle's Database Replication and GoldenGate team. I build and maintain enterprise database software, investigate difficult bugs and race conditions, and think carefully about software design and backward compatibility. My day-to-day work is primarily in C and C++.

Background

I earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, graduating early with a 4.0 GPA after focusing on database systems, distributed systems, operating systems, data structures, and cryptography. I previously studied Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. At UC Irvine, I worked with Professor Chen Li on Apache Texera and helped operate isolated Texera deployments with Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure.

Before Oracle, I worked as a backend software engineer at AppLovin, where I built an asynchronous event pipeline using Google Pub/Sub and BigQuery and worked on performance analysis in a multithreaded Java service. Earlier, I was a software engineer at JPMorgan Chase, where I worked on cloud migrations and regulatory reporting software. I have also contributed patches to Apache AsterixDB.

Projects and interests

My projects include a C++ database implementation based on CMU's BusTub coursework, a fault-tolerant restaurant ordering system using RabbitMQ and MongoDB, a Rust shell-history tool, a Kubernetes control plane for Apache Texera, and several small products such as EarlyApply and Kindle Export to Notion. I am especially interested in databases, distributed systems, systems programming, algorithms, coding agents, competitive programming, and the practical details of shipping reliable software.

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