Vikas Mathur
Product and engineering lead at MariaDB focused on getting enterprise data ready for AI.
Vikas Mathur heads up product and engineering at MariaDB. He focuses on building data platforms that are actually ready for enterprise AI adoption. Before this, he led large-scale engineering teams at OpenText and Actian, handling everything from transactional to columnar databases.
He talks about the messy reality of AI search—specifically how data discoverability, governance, and quality are fundamentally engineering problems rather than afterthoughts.
Based in Sunnyvale, California, he spends his downtime playing tennis and hiking Bay Area trails.
