What Replaces Git When Agents Write the Code
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Gaurav Sarma
I work on the Database Engine team at Stripe, on the MongoDB fleet. Storage internals, the control plane in front of it, server selection, query planning, and the operational trade-offs that come with a few thousand clusters.
Eleven years of this. Before Stripe, data infrastructure at Rippling: sharding, change data capture, Kafka. Before that, Pivotal Tracker at VMware, and the SD-WAN controller at Lavelle Networks, where I joined as one of the first engineers and left as technical lead.
Outside work it is much the same ground. Replication and consensus, snapshots, caching, deployment platforms, and lately agentic systems.
StripeRipplingVMwareLavelle Networks
What I work on
All of it →Multi-tenant data & identity
Systems that know whose data this is
Postgres wire protocolShardingCross-shard transactionsMulti-tenancy
Database & storage internals
The layer below the query
RaftWALChange data captureCopy-on-write snapshots
Platform & distributed runtimes
Getting workloads to run, on time, in order
DockerTerraformKuberneteskubebuilder
Applied AI & agentic systems
Agents that survive contact with production
LLM agent orchestrationTool and CLI integrationSession managementLocal inference
Available for a small number of consulting engagements.
I write about this work, mostly systems and the decisions behind them.
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