A select group of database experts stand out for their active contributions and leadership.
| Name | GitHub Handle | Notable Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| Spencer Kimball | spencerkimball | Co-creator of CockroachDB |
| Sugu Sougoumarane | sougou | Vitess co-creator, PlanetScale CTO |
| Michael “Monty” Widenius | montywi | Founder of MySQL and MariaDB |
| D. Richard Hipp | drhsqlite | Creator of SQLite |
| Paul Dix | pauldix | Founder of InfluxDB |
| Salvatore Sanfilippo | antirez | Original Redis creator |
| Marko A. Rodriguez | okram | TinkerPop/Gremlin graph framework |
| Bruce Momjian | bmomjian | Co-founder of PostgreSQL dev group |
| Dhruba Borthakur | dhruba | Hadoop HDFS, RocksDB, Rockset CTO |
| Eliot Horowitz | erh | Co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB |
| Sanjay Ghemawat | ghemawat | GFS, MapReduce, Bigtable architect |
| Matei Zaharia | mateiz | Creator of Apache Spark |
| Avi Kivity | avikivity | Founder and CTO, ScyllaDB |
| Yoshinori Matsunobu | yoshinorim | Creator of MyRocks storage engine |
These profiles highlight influential database engineers shaping open-source and commercial systems. You can find the full list, along with links to their other social media profiles and additional details, here: https://echoglobal.tech/technologies/database/