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Samay S.

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Reliability Lead, Clickhouse Core at ClickHouse
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Samay is an engineering leader specializing in cloud databases, performance optimization, and distributed systems. Currently the Reliability Lead for ClickHouse Core, his career includes serving as CTO at Tembo, a Postgres developer platform, and managing the open-source PostgreSQL contribution team at Microsoft. He is a graduate of IIIT Hyderabad.

He has previously delivered presentations at tech conferences, such as "Optimizing your app by understanding your Postgres" at RailsConf 2019, showcasing his deep expertise in database performance for application developers.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Reliability Lead, Clickhouse Core
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Database Reliability
As the Reliability Lead for ClickHouse Core, he is actively building his team and focused on the database's stability, availability, and performance in the cloud.
Open Source Postgres
With over a decade of experience, he has managed Microsoft's team of open-source Postgres committers and was the CTO of a Postgres-based developer platform.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Reliability Lead, Clickhouse Core
ClickHouse
3-2025
Board Member
Tembo
6-2023 - 3-2025
Chief Technology Officer
Tembo
1-2022 - 5-2023
Principal Software Engineering Manager - Postgres Open Source
Microsoft
9-2020 - 1-2022
Principal Software Engineering Manager
Microsoft
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Education
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
2003 - 2009
Senior Secondary
Campion school, Bhopal
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