Hello all, Geetanjali's intro email reminded me that I have not sent mine, and so here is a quick email about me.
I grew up in Aurangabad (Maharashtra), went to college in Bombay and moved to the San Francisco bay area in early nineties. I am married, have two kids and a pet cat. For most of my career I have been a backend infrastructure engineer and manager. But fun fact: I have also written an Android app that saw over 100,000 downloads. I also did a short stint at the USDS (United States Digital Service) in Washington DC. I am now the CEO of PlanetScale ( http://planetscale.com), a company I founded in early 2018. Our goal is to build a scalable multi-cloud transactional database-as-a-service based on the open source project Vitess (http://vitess.io). I love to read. My all-time favorite prose author is probably Milan Kundera. I also end up reading a lot of science fiction: in the last year I have read Cory Doctorow, Liu Cixin and Neal Stephenson. Vernor Vinge is an all-time favorite. I also like to cook and make cocktails. The current cookbook I am browsing and trying out recipes from is Asma Said Khan's "Asma's Indian Kitchen: Home-cooked food brought to you by Darjeeling Express". The cocktail I like to make and serve the most is Vesper Martini which I make with Gin, Vodka, Dolin's Dry Vermouth and Cocchi Americano. Thank you Udhay for inviting me and look forward to stimulating discussions. -Jiten
