# Gopi Attaluri

> Engineer at Confluent | ex-AWS | ex-IBM

Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gopi

Core Competencies:
Extensive experience in distributed systems architecture and development
Relational database engine internals (Aurora MySQL, DB2)
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
Performance optimization & scaling
Technical innovation and patents
Software development lifecycle leadership
Reliability engineering &  technical leadership

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Led initiatives across 50+ engineers to enhance the reliability and customer experience of Confluent Kafka cloud service.						
Championed design and implementation of tools to detect and mitigate production issues, reducing incident response time. Helped improve the availability goal of Kafka cluster from 99.5% to 99.99% and the fleet-wide availability goal achievement from 97% to 99%.
Improved deployment pipelines and regression testing, significantly decreasing customer-impacting errors. Helped deploy a new release every two weeks, originally approximately a couple of months.					
Collaborated with infrastructure teams to optimize the stack and meet stringent SLAs.
Engaged with major enterprise customers to refine service reliability and scalability based on real-world feedback.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, USA
Inherited the leadership and successfully delivered parallel query execution for Aurora MySQL, achieving 10x performance gains for complex queries. Also, added hash join support that employed partitions and bloom filters.
Led rearchitecture of binlog commit processing, reducing crash recovery time by 90%.
Designed a safe deployment framework for major features, used by 50+ engineers, enhancing velocity with minimal disruptions.
Drove improvements in memory management, cutting out-of-memoryincidents and enabling hot restarts.					
Headed a tiger team that burned down 100 long-standing technical issues.			
Tracked the availability for Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL. Helped identify and resolve major availability issues in collaboration with a 100+ engineer organization.
Acted as an escalation point for customer-critical incidents, partnering with architects and support teams.

### Senior Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2001 – Jan 2016
In collaboration with database researchers, spearheaded development of advanced database features including XML/XQuery support, pureScale, and columnar storage.
Delivered high-performance and high-reliability features for index-based query processing, partitioned hash-join execution, and catalog management.
Led a performance benchmarking team for large-scale web applications.
Recognized with Master Inventor and received Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards.

### Partner from IBM @ Andhra University College of Engineering Alumni
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Coordinate work from IBM

### Advisory Engineer @ IBM Canada Ltd.
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001
Lead a team to test and improve the performance of DB2 LUW. Focus was on the TPC-W benchmark. Worked closely with cross-site teams (e.g., RS6000 team in Austin).

### Advisory Engineer @ IBM Canada Ltd.
Jan 1996 – Jan 1999
Worked on caching and query processing for Component Broker Connector (Predecessor of WebSphere, based on CORBA).

### Grad student @ Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Jan 1987 – Jan 1989
Graduate student doing research in database systems


## Education
### Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Waterloo

### M.Tech. in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

### B.E. in Computer Science
Andhra University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gopi-attaluri

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Last updated: 2026-04-12