# Ilesh Garish

> Database drivers and internals domain expertise

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

* Development of a SQL engine.
* Development of a XQuery engine.
* Database connectivity drivers development like ODBC,JDBC,
  OLE DB, ADO.NET and XQJ. 
* Database tools development such as 4GL, Export, Import, data integration etc.
* C/C++/Java/C# languages used on multiple platforms like DOS, Windows, Solaris, Linux, 
  SCO, HP-UX, OpenVMS, OS/390 etc.  
* Work on most of all phases of SDLC.
* Development of a Cluster Database Monitoring tool.

Specialties: 
* Database internals on server side and various drivers and tools development for the 
  database servers.
* Software product development & maintenance
* Managing small team and produce the quality output
* Analysis of a problem and reach to the solution in time

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | United States
Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse service in the AWS portfolio.
Lead development and releases of connectors for the Amazon Redshift.

### CMTS @ Oracle
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Redwood Shore, CA
Developed many features in JDBC driver of the Oracle RDBMS.

### Principal Member of Technical Staff @ Actian Corporation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Campbell
Actian Analytic Platform take big data and turns it into business value. My role is to develop connectivity  and monitoring tool for this platform.

### Principal Member of Technical Staff @ ParAccel, an actian company
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Campbell
PADB is an analytic platform for Data Warehouse with MPP.
It's developed using C/C++ on Linux platform. My role is to develope connectivity for the PADB.

### Engineering Manager @ TigerLogic Corporation
Jan 2005 – Jan 2011 | Mountain View
Development of a native XML database called TigerLogic. TigerLogic is available on Windows, Solaris and Linux. My resposnsibility is for enhancing new features like Distributed query, C# API design, Geo Spatial JNI layer development etc. It's exciting again to work in database internals after a long time, as I worked with SN-Base.

### Engineering Manager @ ati
Jan 1998 – Jan 2005
Development of Data Access SDK for ODBC, OLE DB, JDBC and .NET. User has to write adapter to make the driver complete. This adapter can be in C/C++, Java and .NET languages. Releases and support of product.

### IT Consultant @ Frontier System Inc
Jan 1998 – Jan 1998
IT service oriented firm. Did project for Concert, VA. Developed a IBC module for telephone charges.

### Software Lead @ einfochips
Jan 1996 – Jan 1998
Developement of NextGen product for IC fabrication industry. It was in embeded DOS and developed script language to provide user to develop the Windows screen using that script language.

Note: einfochips formerly known as Solmac.

### Software Lead @ Symmetric Multiprocessing
Jan 1991 – Jan 1996
Development of a RDBMS named SNBase and related tools like 4GL Forms, ODBC driver, C Interface, Programming Language of SQL, Report Generation tool etc.

Note: Symmetric Multiprocessing formerly known as Essen Computers.


## Education
### B.E. in Computer
DDIT, Gujarat

### High School in Science
Visva-Bharati


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ilesh-garish-246b65
- Portfolio: http://www.rainingdata.com
- Portfolio: http://www.openaccesssoftware.com
- Portfolio: http://www.einfochips.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12