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Vignesh Ravichandran

Vignesh Ravichandran

Founder of MyClone and Omnigres, obsessed with database platforms and scaling expertise

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San Francisco, California
Joined February 2025
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Summary

Vignesh is a deeply experienced database engineer and engineering leader, specializing in PostgreSQL and related technologies. He has a proven track record of building and managing mission-critical database platforms at scale, including an internal PostgreSQL-as-a-service at Cloudflare and handling high-traffic ticketing databases at Ticketmaster. His expertise spans operational excellence, performance tuning, and architectural design for highly available and performant database systems. infoq+4
He is an advocate for open-source software and actively contributes to the PostgreSQL ecosystem. His work at Cloudflare involved building on and contributing to open-source tools like PostgreSQL and PgBouncer, and he frequently shares his knowledge through articles and as a speaker at open-source conferences. This commitment extends to his personal projects and his role in the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. viggy28+3
Vignesh demonstrates strong entrepreneurial spirit, having co-founded Omnigres with the vision of transforming PostgreSQL into an application runtime, and currently as the Founder and CEO of MyClone, an AI platform for knowledge professionals. These ventures highlight his drive to innovate and scale solutions in the tech landscape, backed by early-stage funding and community support. myclone+2
His expertise includes a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and database technologies (RDBMS like Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server, and NoSQL databases like Mongo and Couchbase). He is skilled in DevOps practices, data integration, performance optimization, and implementing robust security and recovery strategies for databases, managing complex on-premise and cloud environments. weekday+1

Work

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Writing

RDS' margin is EC2's opportunity

January 1, 2024

An article discussing the hidden costs of managed databases compared to running a PostgreSQL instance on EC2, analyzing cloud costs and margins.

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Performance isolation in a multi-tenant database environment

August 1, 2022

Co-authored article on the Cloudflare blog discussing how to enforce stricter performance isolation across neighboring tenants in a multi-tenant database environment, and solutions implemented at Cloudflare.

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Using Cloudflare Tunnel and Access with Postgres

June 1, 2022

Co-authored article on the Cloudflare blog explaining how the Database team uses Cloudflare Tunnels internally to improve security and usability of ad-hoc database queries, replacing traditional SSH bastion hosts.

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Postgres v16 installation issues wrt ICU

A technical article detailing challenges and solutions encountered during the installation of PostgreSQL version 16 due to ICU library dependencies.

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pglite

An exploration into the Postgres wire protocol, detailing a simple implementation in Go to better understand its workings and concepts related to network communication with Postgres.

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Citus Data - How it enables distributed postgres

Notes and insights on Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications, discussing its internal workings and how it provides sharding solutions for Postgres.

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Hobbies

Has a personal interest in cryptocurrencies, though he notes he's "late to the party". quora

Is a fan of the Newcastle United football club. quora

Notes

RSRohan Sharmasaid they would trust
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to lead architecture and disaster recovery planning for a critical cloud database project.

Mar 13, 2026

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