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Co-Founder & CTO at PlanetScale
Sugu is an engineer, entrepreneur, co-founder & CTO at PlanetScale, and co-creator of Vitess. Previously, Sugu was a software engineer at YouTube and worked on various database scaling and infrastructure projects. Before immigrating to the US, he was the Head of PayPal’s India Development Center, a systems architect at Infomix and a software engineer at TSC, Pune. Sugu is the lead developer, and community leader of the Vitess open source project, which he co-created at Youtube in 2010. A graduated CNCF open-source project, Vistess is used by YouTube, GitHub, HubSpot, Slack and Square to serve millions of queries per second. Sugu holds an electrical engineering degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.