Kavya Shivashankar
About Kavya Shivashankar
Kavya Shivashankar is a Senior Solutions Architect at Yugabyte, where she has worked since 2022. With over 15 years of experience in software engineering and data management, she has held various roles across several companies, including American Express and Dell.
Work at Yugabyte
Kavya Shivashankar has been serving as a Senior Solutions Architect at Yugabyte since 2022. In this role, she focuses on providing solutions that enhance the capabilities of Yugabyte's database offerings. Her responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers, guiding them in their career development, and participating in the recruitment process for lateral hires and campus graduates.
Previous Experience
Before joining Yugabyte, Kavya held various positions in notable companies. She worked at American Express from 2016 to 2022 as a Software Engineering Lead, where she implemented automation initiatives and led platform data layer initiatives. Prior to that, she was a Global Migration Lead at Dell from 2011 to 2016, following the acquisition of Clerity Inc. She also served as a Program Manager at NTT DATA Corporation and held multiple roles at MindTree Limited, including Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead.
Education and Expertise
Kavya Shivashankar holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) from B. M. S. College of Engineering, completed in 2001. She furthered her education with graduate studies at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore from 2009 to 2010. Her expertise encompasses application transformation, requirement analysis, application design, process improvements, performance tuning, and application assessments.
Technical Contributions
Throughout her career, Kavya has played diverse roles, including Software Engineering Lead, Data Architect, and Solution Architect, particularly in disaster recovery modernization projects. At American Express, she led initiatives focused on data ingestion and processing pipelines, database design, and externalizing data to Big Data platforms. She also presented a talk on JSONB Datatype & Secondary Indexes in YCQL on June 30, 2023.