Amit Grover

About Amit Grover

As a Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with over 15 years of experience in database engineering, I contribute to the development and growth of the Relational Database Service (RDS). My focus is on advancing commercial engine adoption by simplifying database management and automating processes to enhance customer experience. I specialize in database internals, distributed systems, scalability, manageability, and resiliency, ensuring RDS operates as a reliable, mission-critical service at a global scale.My work has involved addressing complex database and systems programming challenges, including scaling the Amazon Marketplace database infrastructure to manage vast data volumes and optimize query performance. I have collaborated across AWS teams to innovate storage and multi-tenancy solutions for RDS, enabling scalability beyond physical compute and network limitations. My expertise spans AWS cloud technologies, disaster recovery, high availability solutions, and performance tuning.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer - Rds Commercial Engines

   Amazon

   Dec 2010 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   If you have ever bought or sold anything on Amazon, you have touched our Marketplace technology. Amazon’s Marketplace business is one of the largest in the world. It is also one of the fastest growing businesses for the longest sustained period of time. The millions of sellers on Amazon Marketplaces list and manage hundreds of millions of products and the product selection they offer keeps growing week over week.The Marketplace database team Administers all Database Infrastructure for the Amazon Marketplace Platform- We manage one of the world\'s largest eCommerce Database platforms- We use the terms Terabytes and Petabytes everyday- We measure and deliver our query performance in micro and milliseconds- We are 24x7, have a follow the sun support model and the team is Geo-distributed- We hire and develop the world\'s top Database Engineering talent- Our infrastructure runs in data centers across the globe and we are one of the pioneers of running Databases in the Cloud- Our systems scale and are secure- Our infrastructure design is far simpler than one would think- We engineer our systems to support both Analytical and Tactical workloads- We are data driven and measure everything- We Automate and Engineer our way out of problems.

Education

• Sacred Heart Convent School

  10th

  1988 — 1998

• Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

  2000 — 2004

• Kurukshetra University

  Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Software Engineering

  2005 — 2007

• Sant Nishchal Singh Public School

  12th, Non Medical

  1998 — 2000

Skills

• Aix
• Shell Scripting
• Data Center
• Oracle Rac
• Unix
• Oracle Database
• Hp-UX
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Oracle Database Administration
• Database Design
• Replication
• Data Migration
• Data Guard
• Disaster Recovery
• Performance Tuning
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Database Administration
• Sql
• Linux
• Rman
• Sql*Plus
• Cluster
• Databases
• Sql Tuning
• Oracle Application Server
• High Availability
• Data Warehousing
• Pl/Sql
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Solution Architecture
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Itil