Shiv Iyer

Shiv Iyer is Founder and CEO of MinervaDB Inc. and ChistaDATA Inc., and leads fsyncDATA and DBExplore. He advises boards, CIOs, CTOs and chief data officers on the database and data analytics platforms their businesses run on, and is accountable for consulting, 24×7 support and managed services delivered to more than 900 enterprises in 46 cities.

He has spent more than twenty years in database systems: Principal Database Architect at MySQL and Sun Microsystems, vice-president roles at Percona and PalominoDB, and founder of MinervaDB in 2015. He has worked on the data platforms of organisations such as PayPal, AOL, the BBC and National Geographic, and speaks at database conferences including Percona Live and MariaDB Fest.

PRACTICE

Architecture and engineering: data platform strategy, solution architecture, schema and query design, and migration off legacy and proprietary engines.

24×7 operations: consultative support with a 15-minute Severity 1 response, remote DBA and fully managed database services.

Performance engineering and scalability: query and optimizer tuning, capacity planning, sharding and distributed systems, anchored in measured telemetry rather than opinion.

High availability and disaster recovery: replication topology, failover design, RPO and RTO engineering, and recovery drills rehearsed before they are needed.

Data reliability engineering: observability and monitoring, SLOs and error budgets, incident response and root-cause analysis.

Data analytics, data science and MLOps: real-time analytics platforms, production machine learning, and private, in-VPC GenAI and RAG under GDPR, DPDP and HIPAA-class governance.

Cloud data infrastructure and Cloud FinOps: operating cloud DBaaS estates and reducing cost per query, per transaction and per ingested terabyte from the client's own billing exports and database telemetry.

ENGINES AND PLATFORMS

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM Db2, MongoDB, SAP HANA, ClickHouse, Trino, Apache Cassandra, Redis, Valkey and Milvus.

Cloud DBaaS on AWS (Amazon RDS, Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB), Microsoft Azure (Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, Cosmos DB) and Google Cloud (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, BigQuery), together with MongoDB Atlas, Snowflake and Databricks.

THE FIRMS

MinervaDB is the vendor-neutral database infrastructure company that enterprises rely on to architect, engineer, operate and optimize their data platforms. One team owns the full stack, and it will advise against an engine, including one it supports, when it is the wrong fit.

ChistaDATA delivers consulting, 24×7 support, managed services and migrations on 100% open-source ClickHouse, with no vendor lock-in, for real-time analytics at petabyte scale.

fsyncDATA, a MinervaDB company, convenes the data leaders of India's Global Capability Centers: an invitation-only Circle for CDOs, CIOs and site leaders, and vetted engine Guilds for architects and engineers.

DBExplore is Postgres Autopilot, an AI control plane for PostgreSQL fleets that explains what is wrong with evidence and proposes the fix behind a fail-closed policy gate and a signed audit ledger.

ADVISORY

Fractional Chief Data Officer and Cloud FinOps advisor to executive teams. Investor in and adviser to database systems and data analytics companies.

ON THIS PAGE

Workshops, conference talks and technical briefings on database internals, performance engineering, scalability, HA/DR, ClickHouse operations and cloud cost. Every deck is shared for learning: test on your own workload before applying anything to production, and keep a robust disaster recovery posture.

ENGAGE

For a consulting engagement, a support contract, a managed services team, a workshop for your engineers or a speaking invitation, write to [email protected] or call +1 (844) 588-7287.

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