Avi Kivity (Hebrew: אבי קויתי) is a software engineer who created the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor underlying many production clouds.

[2][3] He co-founded the company ScyllaDB with Dor Laor; Kivity is CTO and an active project contributor.

[4][5] After leaving Red Hat in 2012, Kivity co-founded a company called Cloudius Systems with Dor Laor.

[7] In mid-2014, Cloudius Systems was renamed to ScyllaDB, after its main product which is used for high-throughput database workloads that require low latencies.

(Forbes) Kivity serves as the company's chief technology officer and contributes to the source code development of ScyllaDB as well as Seastar.