Nikhil Chawla is a performance-focused software engineer specializing in building, optimizing, and scaling distributed systems, databases, and storage platforms.

At Microsoft, he leads performance R&D efforts for PostgreSQL on Azure, driving innovations in Postgres internals, telemetry, and stress-testing frameworks. His work delivers end-to-end solutions that strengthen scalability, operational resilience, and customer experience including proactive mechanisms to mitigate replication lag and system stalls.

Nikhil Chawla presents 1 Event:

• How Postgres can leverage disk bandwidth for better TPS. at PGConf India, 2026