Hari Krishna Sunder
Principal engineer at YugabyteDB
Hari Krishna Sunder is the Technical Lead and Principal Architect at YugabyteDB, specializing in cloud-native database systems and distributed architectures.
With over 13 years of experience, Hari has built core database components for major systems including YugabyteDB, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Synapse Data Warehouse. He currently serves on the Technical Steering Committee for DocumentDB, a CNCF project backed by Microsoft, YugabyteDB, and Amazon.
An active member of the open-source community and various database conference program committees, Hari’s expertise lies in database internals such as storage, Write-Ahead Logging, replication, recovery, and metadata management, with a focus on delivering performance and reliability at scale.
Upcoming presentations
DocumentDB on Postgres: Native BSON, Vectors, and Mongo Compatibility
This session is designed for developers and architects interested in the internal mechanics of DocumentDB extension and those looking to maximize their development workflow without leaving the PostgreSQL ecosystem
![DocumentDB](https://documentdb.io/images/DocumentDB%20Logo%20-%20background%20removed.png%20"DocumentDB")
** DocumentDB **
Developers are increasingly tasked with building cloud ready applications that require both flexible data schemas and advanced AI capabilities. Traditionally, this meant managing a complex stack of document stores, vector databases, and relation...
Apr 23 2026