About

I’m Kaushik Iska. I lead engineering for Postgres at ClickHouse, where we build Postgres managed by ClickHouse and the tooling that moves data between Postgres and ClickHouse.

In 2023 I co-founded PeerDB (YC S23) with Sai Srirampur, to make replicating data out of Postgres fast and simple. ClickHouse acquired PeerDB in 2024, and it now powers the Postgres CDC connector in ClickPipes.

Before that:

• At Google I was a tech lead on the Flutter engine, including its embedding for Fuchsia.
• At SafeGraph I led the team that built the Places dataset: cutting buildings and deduplicating places.
• At Palantir I worked on data ingestion, search, and distributed backend systems.

I studied Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad, with honors in computational geometry under Dr. Kishore Kothapalli. In 2013 my team placed 73rd at the ACM ICPC World Finals.

Outside work I read a lot, run when I can, and chase twin toddlers.

You can find me on GitHub, X, and LinkedIn.