Srini Srinivasan is a founder and chief technology officer at Aerospike. When it comes to databases, he is one of the recognized pioneers of Silicon Valley. He has two decades of experience designing, developing, and operating high-scale infrastructures. He also has over a dozen patents in database, web, mobile, and distributed systems technologies. He co-founded Aerospike to solve the scaling problems he experienced with Oracle databases while he was senior director of engineering at Yahoo