Shivji has been working on databases and streaming systems for over a decade. Shivji currently heads the distributed data org at Nutanix. Previously, he has worked on organisations big and small, as a software engineer at MySQL Replication, 5th engineer at a startup working on a host of things including microservices, observability infrastructure, cloud and databases, designed and implemented the help chat bot and metadata catalogue for all data at Swiggy (India’s Doordash). Very active in the Open Source software community and a regular speaker at Open Source conferences, Shivji has contributed over 25 patches to MySQL and Apache Pulsar open source code bases.