Krishnakumar (KK) started his professional life with porting Linux to embedded boards used in firewalls, electric networks etc. Spanning two decades of industry experience, KK has spent time solving challenges, building products and features in areas such as High-performance computing (HPC), Scalable filesystems and Storage. He came to Microsoft as part of Storsimple (a hybrid cloud storage product) acquisition and stayed around working on intersection of edge and the cloud and spent time in Kubernetes space before moving to Databases. After helping build a growing PostgreSQL service on Azure he recently joined as Engineering manager for committers and contributors team focused on open-source PostgreSQL.