I’m Manan Gupta, a software engineer specializing in scalable distributed database systems and open-source contributions. I completed my bachelor’s in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and have been actively involved in open-source database projects.

• VTOrc (High-Availability for Vitess):
  Led the creation of VTOrc by forking Orchestrator, implementing automatic failover logic, monitoring capabilities, and seamless recovery mechanisms to ensure minimal downtime for Vitess clusters.

• Vitess Query Serving Enhancements:
  Added robust foreign key constraint support within Vitess, enabling relational integrity checks, and implemented atomic distributed transactions to guarantee consistency across sharded environments.

• Automated Cherry-Picks Between Repositories:
  Developed tooling and workflows to automatically generate and apply cherry‐picks between the open‐source Vitess repository and our private enterprise fork, significantly reducing manual merge overhead and sync latency.

• Vitess Operator Maintenance:
  Continued development and upkeep of the Vitess Kubernetes Operator.

• LFX Mentorship:
  Acted as an LFX (Linux Foundation) mentor, providing guidance to multiple open-source contributors, helping them contribute to Vitess on various projects like the parser.

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 – Scaling Databases With Vitess
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• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 – One VTOrc to Rule Them All
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• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024 – Introduction to Vitess
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• MySQL Belgian Days 2025 – Atomic Distributed Transactions
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• PGDay Mumbai 2026 - Horizontal scalability and intelligent sharding with Multigres on Postgres
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• PgConf.Dev 2026 - Connection Pooling Beyond PgBouncer: A Custom Approach for Distributed PostgreSQL
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I regularly share insights on distributed systems, Vitess internals, and open-source development. You can find all of my technical and personal blog posts at B³: Bytes Beats Books. Feel free to check back soon for new content!

With extensive expertise in distributed databases and high-availability systems, I’m open to discussing new opportunities and collaborations. Feel free to drop me a message anytime!