Alan Caldera is a Distinguished Engineer at YugabyteDB and was the company’s first Sales Engineer hire in 2018. With nearly 40 years of experience in the database industry, he brings deep expertise across technologies including Informix, DB2, ParAccel (Amazon Redshift), InfluxDB, and Oracle. Throughout his career, Alan has held diverse roles spanning development, consulting, sales, and industry leadership. His hands-on knowledge and strategic insight make him a trusted advisor to customers adopting distributed PostgreSQL and building resilient, scalable applications.