Recent Highlights and Happenings

It’s been another fast-moving month here at Yugabyte. Although it remains a difficult time nationally and globally, it’s our hope that sharing this information and our currently open positions may be some good news at a time when it’s needed most.

On the momentum front, we recently announced that we raised $30 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by 8VC, with participation from Wipro Ventures and existing investors, Lightspeed, and Dell Technologies Capital. We also welcomed two new board members, Bhaskar Ghosh from 8VC and Scott Yara, formerly of Greenplum and Pivotal Software.

We are also super stoked to achieve some exciting community milestones, including 4,000+ GitHub stars, 100+ open source contributors, and 1150+ community Slack members; you can dive into these and other YugabyteDB community happenings here.

And we are happy to announce that the YugabyteDB Operator is certified and available as a Beta release on Red Hat OpenShift, a leading enterprise Kubernetes platform for deploying and managing cloud native applications. Check out that announcement here.

Due to COVID-19, we remain fully virtual in all aspects of our work, including recruiting. Because in-person meetings are restricted, we looked for ways to bring to life what it’s like to work at Yugabyte. In the spirit of doing so, we will introduce a Yugabeing in our hiring posts so you can learn about what it’s like to work here directly from the talented people who have already joined us on our ambitious mission. With that, here’s an introduction to Neha Deodhar.

Meet Neha Deodhar, Director of Engineering

Q: Where are you based?

A: SF Bay Area

Q: What do you do at Yugabyte?

A. Distributed SQL! I lead a team of talented engineers developing a distributed query language for YugabyteDB. We’re responsible for:

• Developing SQL features that make it easy for you to run a variety of applications
• Query planning and optimizations for high performance in a distributed setup
• Query visibility, security, client drivers, and the ability to run industry standard benchmarks on YugabyteDB

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