Anil Kumar

Anil Kumar [a.k.a Anil Kumar Hampayya Saunshimath] is the Distributed Database specialist and Director of Product Management at Couchbase. Anil’s career spans more than 15+ years building software products across various domains including enterprise software, mobile services, and voice and video services. He is a hands-on product leader responsible for Couchbase Server, Cloud, Containers, and Kubernetes product lines as well as evangelizing the product strategy and vision with customers, partners, developers, and analysts. Before joining Couchbase, Anil spent several years working at Microsoft in the Entertainment division and Windows and Windows Live division. Anil holds a master’s degree in computer science from Toronto (Canada) and a bachelor’s in information technology from Visvesvaraya Technological University (India). He lives in San Jose, California with his wife Suma and their daughter Aarushi.