Sunil Sayyaparaju is Vice President of Engineering at Aerospike and heads the company’s Bangalore Engineering team. He joined the company in 2011 and spearheaded the design and development of Aerospike’s Cross-Datacenter Replication (XDR) feature. In addition, he frequently provides guidance to customers on their data modeling and end-to-end solution architecture designs. He has over 10 years experience working on different databases including NoSQL, SQL (Sybase) and RDBMSs. Sunil has deep expertise in single machine (monolithic), in-memory, distributed shared-disk, and distributed shared-nothing architectures with emphasis on replication, transaction management, storage, and performance tuning. Sunil holds a B.Tech from Andhra University and an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.