10 Cockroach Labs engineering leaders
Co-founder and CTO at Cockroach Labs, EVP of R&D and Senior Director, Engineering are among the current titles held by these Cockroach Labs engineering leaders, who also include directors of engineering and of production engineering. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at Cockroach Labs from people who have held the role.
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Alex Lunev
LinkedInExperience: Former Vice President of Engineering · Cockroach Labs
Alex Lunev is a former Vice President of Engineering at Cockroach Labs, a role held from July to October 2025 and described as leading all the teams building CockroachDB. At Cockroach Labs, Alex Lunev was also Senior Director of Engineering from 2023 to 2025 and Director Of Engineering from 2020 to 2023, and has been Vice President of Engineering at LangChain since October 2025.
Andrew Kimball
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Engineering · Cockroach Labs
Andrew Kimball has been Director Of Engineering at Cockroach Labs since January 2018, with a headline of Fellow at Cockroach Labs, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Andrew Kimball was Square Capital Engineering Manager at Square from 2013 to 2018 and Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft from 1996 to 2012.
BabuSrithar M
LinkedInExperience: India Site Lead, Sr Director of Engineering · Cockroach Labs
BabuSrithar M has been India Site Lead, Sr Director of Engineering at Cockroach Labs since February 2023, based in Bengaluru, India. BabuSrithar M was Vice President Of Engineering at Apty from 2021 to 2023, Director of Engineering at Clumio from 2019 to 2021 and Senior Engineering Manager at Nutanix from 2017 to 2019.
Isaac Wong
LinkedInExperience: EVP of R&D · Cockroach Labs
Isaac Wong has been EVP of R&D at Cockroach Labs since April 2024, based in New York, and was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Cockroach Labs from 2019 to 2024. Isaac Wong was Vice President of Platform Architecture, Medidata Inventor at Medidata Solutions from 2013 to 2019 and Senior Director Of Engineering there from 2007 to 2013.
Ken Liu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Engineering · Cockroach Labs
Ken Liu has been Senior Director, Engineering at Cockroach Labs since April 2019, based in the New York City area. Ken Liu was VP of Engineering at Skillshare from 2017 to 2018, VP of Engineering at VTS from 2014 to 2017 and Lead Developer at IEEE from 2010 to 2014.
Namrata Kodali
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Cockroach Labs
Namrata Kodali has been Director of Engineering at Cockroach Labs since February 2024, based in the New York City area, and the profile also lists Senior Engineering Manager there as current from 2022. Namrata Kodali was Engineering Manager at Cockroach Labs from 2020 to 2022 and Software Engineering Manager at Yext from 2019 to 2020.
Nick Travers
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Cockroach Labs
Nick Travers has been Director of Engineering at Cockroach Labs since May 2026, based in Los Angeles, with a headline of Infrastructure Engineering and Leadership. At Cockroach Labs, Nick Travers was also Senior Engineering Manager from 2023 to 2026, Engineering Manager from 2022 to 2023 and Software Engineer from 2021 to 2022.
Peter Mattis
LinkedInExperience: Co-founder and CTO · Cockroach Labs
Peter Mattis has been Co-founder and CTO at Cockroach Labs since September 2019, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, and was CTO and VP of Engineering at Cockroach Labs from 2015 to 2022. Peter Mattis was Software Engineer at Square from 2013 to 2015 and Software Engineer at Google from 2002 to 2011.
Stan Rosenberg
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Engineering · Cockroach Labs
Stan Rosenberg has been Director Of Engineering at Cockroach Labs since September 2021, based in New York. Stan Rosenberg was VP of Engineering at Inpher from 2019 to 2021, VP of Engineering at Forensiq from 2016 to 2019 and Director of Software, Principal Engineer at PlaceIQ (now Precisely) from 2013 to 2016.
Tom Schmidt
LinkedInExperience: Director - Production Engineering · Cockroach Labs
Tom Schmidt has been Director - Production Engineering at Cockroach Labs since August 2025, based in the Greater Toronto Area. At Cockroach Labs, Tom Schmidt was also Senior Manager - Site Reliability Engineering from 2023 to 2025, and was Senior Manager - Site Reliability Engineering - IBM Business Analytics at IBM from 2019 to 2022.
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