Nikita Shamgunov builds Lakebase, Databricks’ managed Postgres infrastructure for applications and AI agents. He co-founded Neon, whose serverless Postgres architecture separates storage from compute, and previously co-founded SingleStore. Earlier, he worked on database systems at Microsoft and Facebook.
Vice President, Lakebase
Builds Postgres infrastructure for applications and AI agents.
Co-founder
Co-founded serverless Postgres company Neon, incubated at Khosla Ventures and now part of Databricks.
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Previously served as founding CTO and CEO of MemSQL, later renamed SingleStore.
Software Engineer
Worked on core infrastructure systems.
Senior Software Development Engineer, SQL Server
Worked on SQL Server's database engine.
Ph.D. in Computer Science
