# Aditya Karad

Aditya Karad is a Member of Technical Staff on Oracle's Database Replication and GoldenGate team. He works on enterprise database software, difficult bugs, race conditions, software design, and backward compatibility, primarily in C and C++.

## Background

Aditya earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, graduating early with a 4.0 GPA. His coursework focused on database systems, distributed systems, operating systems, data structures, and cryptography. He worked with Professor Chen Li on Apache Texera, including Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure for isolated deployments. He previously earned a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

Before Oracle, Aditya worked at AppLovin on an asynchronous event pipeline using Google Pub/Sub and BigQuery and on performance analysis for multithreaded services. At JPMorgan Chase, he worked on cloud migrations and regulatory reporting software. He has also contributed patches to Apache AsterixDB.

## Projects and interests

Selected projects include a C++ database implementation based on CMU's BusTub coursework, a fault-tolerant restaurant ordering system using RabbitMQ and MongoDB, a Rust shell-history tool, and a Kubernetes control plane for Apache Texera. Aditya has also built products including EarlyApply and Kindle Export to Notion.

His technical interests include databases, database replication, distributed systems, systems programming, algorithms, coding agents, and reliable software design. Outside work, he follows competitive programming, physics, financial markets, weight training, Formula 1, and technical writing.

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