Harshit Gangal
Engineer at planetscale and author of the-architecture-of-neki, the source that turned neki from a name in this wiki into a described system.
A top-five contributor to vitessio/vitess by commit count (checked against the GitHub API on
2026-09-19, alongside the @planetscale company field on the same account) writing the Postgres
system's architecture — worth recording next to
the post's own disclaimer that Neki is "not a MySQL sharding idea wearing a Postgres label." The
shared authorship does not make the disclaimer false — the mechanisms Postgres forces are genuinely
different — but it does explain why Router↔VTGate, Sidecar↔VTTablet and the MoveTables / Reshard /
OnlineDDL vocabulary carry across unchanged.