Couchbase Appoints Former AWS GM to SVP President of Engineering

Couchbase Inc., provider of a modern database for enterprise applications, announced Gopi Duddi as senior vice president of engineering where he will oversee all product development and delivery for the company.

Duddi is an established leader with nearly 25 years of experience in database software and cloud solution design, development and operations, having built and supported some of the most scaled services and applications in all of enterprise technology.

Duddi has significant cloud expertise, including in core database technologies, data management, machine learning and full-stack development.

He most recently was general manager for AWS Analytics and Observability, where he scaled and accelerated engineering for AWS services including AWS Glue and AWS CloudWatch, which were among the cloud service provider’s fastest-growing products.

He previously worked on the AWS Redshift team and a broad cross-section of database and analytics services including DynamoDB and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Prior to AWS, Duddi held senior database engineering roles at IBM and Informix.