Hari Krishna Sunder is an Architect at YugabyteDB, specializing in cloud-native and agentic data systems and distributed architectures.

Across 14+ years, Hari has been a founding member of Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Data Warehouse, and has built core components of YugabyteDB and Meko, a memory and data layer for multi-agent systems. He serves on the Technical Steering Committee for DocumentDB, a Linux Foundation project.

His expertise spans agentic engineering and database internals, including storage, replication, and metadata management, with a focus on performance and reliability at scale. An active open-source contributor and conference program committee member, Hari has spoken at Microsoft Build, Carnegie Mellon, PGConf, DSS, and executive technology forums.