Date started current role: October 2019
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Sameer Tiwari is CTO of infrastructure at MariaDB and leads the development of SkySQL, MariaDB’s database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform. Prior to MariaDB, Tiwari was at Salesforce, where he worked on modernising the Salesforce cloud architecture to move thousands of on-prem machines to the cloud. He also architected a distributed, scale-out platform for high-speed transactional workloads to replace a proprietary database. In earlier roles, Tiwari served as a storage architect at Pivotal and a platform architect at Yahoo.
What was your first job? My first job was straight out of college. I started working at Unisys on their MainFrame computers, writing code to debug OS components that were being re-written as a move from 16 to 32-bit architecture. At the time, the move to a 32-bit architecture was a quantum leap for computing, so it was exciting to be a part of it in the early days of my career.