About

Saraj Munjal is a Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood, where he is a part of the amazing Storage Platform team. He has been diving deep into the Postgres ecosystem and fighting schema migrations over the past 3+ years. Before joining Robinhood, he worked on Firebase Realtime Database at Google, helping power seamless, real-time data for millions of users. In a past life, he also built large-scale Android apps for the Indian market and worked as a backend engineer at a startup.

Outside of the tech world, Saraj is an ardent Arsenal fan and loves embracing the outdoors, whether hiking, paddleboarding, or taking in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.


Saraj Munjal has presented the following presentations

    Saraj Munjal DDL Schema Migrations: Navigating the High-Scale Seas at Seattle 2024
    Learn about common failure modes when modifying Postgres tables and how to address them

    presented by Saraj Munjal

    Schema migrations (DDL statements) can be a rough journey, especially when dealing with high-scale, always-online microservices. In this talk, we will:

    • Explore the common pitfalls and failure modes when modifying Postgres tables - locking and backwards-incompatibility
    • Share real-world examples from large-scale systems with minimal downtime
    • Dive into the strategies and solutions we’ve...
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    Wed 6 2024 Dev