Sugu Sougoumarane is a co-creator of Vitess, the sharding and clustering system for MySQL that he helped build at YouTube to scale its MySQL databases. Vitess was open sourced, became a graduated CNCF project, and now powers MySQL at companies such as Slack, GitHub, and Shopify. In 2018 he co-founded PlanetScale to build a database platform on top of Vitess and served as its CTO. In 2025 he joined Supabase as Head of Multigres, an open source project that applies the Vitess architecture to Postgres.
Sugu Sougoumarane
Co-creator of Vitess at YouTube and co-founder of PlanetScale, now leading Multigres at Supabase.