Karthik Ranganathan is Co-CEO and Co-Founder at Yugabyte, the company behind YugabyteDB, the open-source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, cloud-native applications.. Karthik was one of the original database engineers at Meta(Facebook), responsible for building distributed databases such as Cassandra and HBase. He is an Apache HBase committer, and also an early contributor to Cassandra, before it was open-sourced by Meta.