Staff on Percona Community

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Database Bug Analyst @ Percona | Ex - Oracle

Highly experienced and seasoned MySQL Database Engineer with a proven record of strong database development and maintenance. Profoundly knowledgeable about a wide variety of databases. Excellent ability to work independently or as a part of the Team.

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Since 1995, Alastair has administered, programmed and supported all things database, from Access to Universe, settling on Postgres around 2002. His particular area of interest is integration between open source software, how open source communities can work together and what they can learn from each other.

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Database Engineer

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Aleksandra joined Percona Community Team in 2021 as a Community Specialist. Before joining Percona, she worked as a support specialist and as a technical writer in Simtech Development. She is now focusing on communicating with the opensource community, building awareness about Percona products and services, and event organizing.

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Alkin Tezuysal has extensive experience in enterprise relational databases, working in various sectors for large corporations. With more than 20 years of industry experience, he has acquired skills for managing large projects from the ground up to production. For the past decade, he’s been focused on e-commerce, SaaS, and MySQL technologies. Alkin has managed and architected database topologies for high-volume sites at eBay Intl. He has several years of experience in 24X7 support and operational tasks and improving database systems for major companies. He has led global operations teams on Tier 1/2/3 support for MySQL customers. In late 2020, he joined PlanetScale’s expert engineering team over Vitess.

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Open Source Contributor

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PostgreSQL Expert

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Software Engineer, PMM

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Andrey is a software engineer, computer scientist, developer at Yandex, Ph.D., associated professor at Ural Federal University, co-founder of Octonica company. He is interested in backup technologies and data indexing and also teaches at Yandex School for Data Analysis and UrFU. His recent talk at Percona Live featured the architecture of point in time recovery with WAL-G in the cloud.

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Software Engineer, PMM

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Dashboards engineer, Percona Monitoring and Management.

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Senior Software Engineer at PostgreSQL team, Percona

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Open Source Contributor

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Avinash Vallarapu is the CEO and Chief of Products at HexaCluster, where he leads the development of PostgreSQL extensions and an end-to-end database migration tool called HexaRocket. Before HexaCluster, Avi founded MigOps and served as a PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Percona, and as a Database Architect at Dell. Avi is a frequent conference speaker, presenting at dozens of events around the world. He has spoken at four past Percona Live conferences, delivering 15+ hours of Percona Live sessions to date, and continues to share practical, field-tested lessons from real customer transformations.

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Barrett Chambers is the Director of Solutions Engineering at Percona. Prior to joining Percona, he acquired a range of full-stack perspectives as an Application Support Specialist, Operational DBA, SaaS engineer, and Solutions Engineer. Barrett has over 6 years of experience designing database solutions with consideration for high availability, disaster recovery, and performance for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB environments.

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Database Engineer

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Open Source Contributor

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Brian has over 20 years of experience in the database and technology space. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership. Brian’s career has included roles as Database Architect, Solutions Architect, Product Manager, and Pre-Sales Engineer. Brian spent 7 years at Teradata on their product engineering and product management teams followed by 7 years with Oracle as a Principal Sales Consultant. Brian is currently working at Percona as the Director of Solution Engineering.

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Software Engineer, PMM, Percona Toolkit

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Computer engineer from Montevideo, Uruguay, joined Percona on February 2018, first as a support engineer, then moving to the consulting team. Working in complex IT solutions for more than 10 years, Carlos now specializes in MySQL and related technologies.

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Catalina Adam is a Senior Technical Writer at Percona, where she blends AI-driven content strategies with docs-as-code workflows to make open-source database technologies more accessible.

With over a decade of experience in technical communication, she loves turning complex, messy information into clear, useful documentation.

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Charly Batista is currently PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Percona. Possesses over twelve (12) years of experience in various areas of IT including Database Administration, Data Analysis, Systems Analysis and Software Development. Strong analytical skills combined with experience in object oriented programming techniques. Technical Leader for more than four (4) years for the Developer Team. Born in Brazil and now living in Shanghai-China.

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k8s Expert

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Daniel is a database engineer who spent years doing MySQL consulting and support, including a long stint working with the Percona ecosystem. He now builds bintrail, an open source (Apache 2.0) tool that captures MySQL row events from the binlog, indexes them, and turns them into recovery SQL, point-in-time reconstruction, and a Parquet archive tier.

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I am proud to work for the Percona Community Team.

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Dave joined Percona last February 2022. Dave is MySQL Community Manager and the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide

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David studied Computer Science in National University of La Plata and has worked as a DBA consultant since 2008. For 3 years he worked with a worldwide platform of free classifieds up until he joined Percona’s consulting team in November 2014. David lives in La Plata, near Buenos Aires, Argentina and in his free time loves to spend time with his family. He is also the maintainer of MyDumper.

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Self-motivated, detail-oriented marketing professional with more than 17 years of remote work experience. Skilled in copyediting, content marketing, social media, SEO, strategy, and project management. Strong interpersonal skills and extensive client-facing experience. Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with expertise in efficiently handling multiple projects simultaneously. Proven team collaboration and community-building experience.

Specialties include Copyediting, Digital Marketing, Content Marketing Strategy, Social Media/User-Generated Marketing, Lead Generation, Copywriting, Marketing, Paid Media, SEO, Design, Communications Strategy, Public Relations, and CMS Management.

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David Stokes is a Technology Evangelist for Percona Corporation, is the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide, and resides in Texas.

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I am Engineering Manager in Percona working on Percona Monitoring and Management solution.

My past experience is:

distributed storage as engineering manager: SUSE - Ceph; Seagate - Lustre
Monitoring experience in Massive Solutions
Embedded engineer in Mindspeed before that

I love Linux, run full Wayland, openSUSEway (sway) and Fedora

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Open Source Contributor

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Database Engineer

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Edith Puclla is a Technology Evangelist of Percona Corporation, studied at 42 Silicon Valley School in California in 2020, and was part of the Outreachy Internship in 2021. She has a background in DevOps and is a Docker and Kubernetes enthusiast.

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Open Source Contributor

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Yevhen Patlan is a technology leader with nearly 20 years of experience in build and release engineering. He has a strong record of building release processes and leading high-performing teams across cloud platforms. He works hands-on with Perl, Python, Bash, Docker, and Debian and RPM packaging, and he consistently delivers reliable, high-quality software releases. He loves open source and contributes to it. He is also pursuing a PhD and co-founding a charity organization in Ukraine.

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Francisco has been working in MySQL since 2006, he has worked for several companies which includes Health Care industry to Gaming. Over the last years he has been working as a database architect which help him to acquire a lot of technical and multi-cultural skills

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Software Engineer & Engineering Manager

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MySQL Expert

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Ibrar Ahmed is a Principal Engineer at pgEdge. He previously worked as a Software Architect at Percona. Before open source he worked on system-level embedded software. After joining EnterpriseDB in 2006 he moved into PostgreSQL. He has contributed to PostgreSQL and other open source projects, from performance work to various PostgreSQL modules. He has also worked with MySQL, Oracle, and NoSQL systems such as MongoDB and Hadoop, and with related tools including Hive, HBase, and Spark.

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Senior Software Engineer at Percona

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Passionate about technology, Ivan Groenewold is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in database management, cloud infrastructure, and software development.

With a focus on optimizing performance and scalability, Ivan excels in designing and implementing solutions for complex systems, particularly in MongoDB and cloud-native environments.

Known for problem-solving and a results-driven mindset, Ivan combines technical expertise with a commitment to continuous learning, delivering high-quality solutions for modern enterprise applications.

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Jaime is a Senior Database Performance Engineer at Percona. Prior to joining Percona, Jaime worked as a remote system administrator managing high-traffic websites and consultant for several local companies. He also conducted Linux trainings in several schools. Jaime is based in the Philippines. He enjoys road trips and photography in his spare time.

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Jan is a Senior Product Manager at Percona, leading the products for PostgreSQL. He has vast experience in the development, deployment and maintenance of enterprise systems.

Professionally, he is passionate about simple solutions that solve complicated problems and user experience that maximizes the product potential.

Privately he is a foodie by day, a tech geek into graphic novels, video and board games by night and parent/spouse in between.

Having spent already almost three years in Percona, most of us learned that he has enough energy and topics to fill in any space and time.

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Jean joined Percona as a Support Engineer in 2020. Before joining the team, he worked in a mission-critical environment for 4 years, helping administrate databases like MySQL, MongoDB, and Oracle DB. Specializing in Database Engineering, and Big Data, he likes to watch Formula 1 in his free time.

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I’m a database engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, optimizing, and supporting large-scale MySQL and MongoDB environments—most recently as part of Percona’s global engineering organization. My work focuses on solving high-impact, complex database challenges for customers operating mission-critical systems where performance, availability, and data integrity are non-negotiable.

Across my career, I’ve led deep-dive investigations into performance bottlenecks, reliability issues, replication failures, and scalability limits. I specialize in advanced troubleshooting, query and schema optimization, high availability architecture, distributed systems behavior, and proactive capacity/performance planning. I’m comfortable working in high-pressure production environments and delivering clear, actionable solutions that improve stability and reduce operational risk.

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Jobin Augustine is a PostgreSQL expert and Open Source advocate and has more than 19 years of working experience as consultant, architect, administrator, writer, and trainer in PostgreSQL, Oracle and other database technologies. He has always been an active participant in the Open Source communities and his main focus area is database performance and optimization. He is a contributor to various Open Source Projects and is an active blogger and loves to code in C++ and Python. Jobin holds a Masters in Computer Applications and joined Percona in 2018 as a Senior Support Engineer. Prior to joining Percona, he worked at OpenSCG for 2 years as Architect and was part of the BigSQL core team, a complete PostgreSQL distribution offering. Previous to his work at OpenSCG, Jobin worked at Dell as Database Senior Advisor for 10 years and 5 years with TCS/CMC.

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Joe Brockmeier is Head of Community for Percona. He has been involved in open source and technology for more than 20 years. His background includes leadership and community facing roles at Intel, Red Hat, Citrix and SUSE. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been a contributor to numerous open source projects including Fedora, Apache CloudStack, Project Atomic and CentOS.

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Database Engineer

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As a Software Engineering Manager at Percona, I have over 23 years of experience in software development, leadership, and innovation.

I am passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions that leverage agile methodologies, DevOps culture, and microservices architecture. I lead the effort on a cloud-friendly framework that is based on Angular, .Net Core, Elastic Search, Fluentd, Kibana, Jaeger, Rabbit MQ, Jasper Reports, Docker, and Kubernetes, and achieved a 40% improvement in development speed. I also have a master’s and a PhD degree in computer engineering, and I constantly seek to learn new technologies and skills.

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Justin Swanhart has over 20 years of experience working with database technologies. He is the author of WarpSQL, ShardQuery, Flexviews, and PHP-SQL-Parser. Currently the CEO of LeapDB, LLC, a company developing software as a service MySQL and MariaDB solutions for materialized views and streaming SQL queries, Justin was platform DBA at Yahoo!, a consultant, and trainer at Percona, a consultant at Proven Scaling, and a database engineer at Etsy, among other roles. Justin is a prolic speaker in the MySQL community, and a well known MySQL community member, who is known for strong opinions about topics, and who oers a no-nonsense view of the open source technology landscape.

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Kai is the Head of Product & Engineering for PostgreSQL. Before joining Percona, he worked as a team lead and as a software engineer at SUSE Linux. He is now focusing on the coordination of the PostgreSQL development and product at Percona as well as acting as an open source evangelist.

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Senior Cloud-Native Solutions Manager with 11 years of hands-on experience across Linux security, open-source infrastructure, web hosting, and enterprise systems. Focused on supporting financial institutions, cloud providers, and multi-regional enterprises in adopting and operating secure, scalable open-source platforms in production environments.

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Kedar is an experienced Database Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. He’s been working with MySQL ecosystem and interested in expanding his knowledge in Cloud Databases. He lives in Vadodara, India with kids, Aarya & Rudra and a better half, Madhumita.

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Keith is a Quality Engineer at Percona, working on the Percona for MongoDB project. He has over a decade of experience in software testing and previously worked at IBM on products including QRadar, a leading SIEM solution.

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Senior Software Engineer at Percona.

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Kris Buytaert is a long-time DevOps and Open Source expert and engineering leader. He recently joined Percona as Practice Lead, Observability. He is one of the instigators of the DevOps movement and has started more than one conference series. He has lost count of how many times he has spoken at other events. He spends most of his time bridging the gap between developers and operations, while warning people not to make the mistakes he made. He builds infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test or a datacenter fire, while actively promoting the DevOps idea.

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Krunal has been actively working in MySQL space for over a decade. He is currently driving the adaption of the ARM ecosystem for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona through his #mysqlonarm initiative working at Huawei. In the past he has worked on multiple MySQL projects viz. undo log truncate, atomic truncate temp table work, Percona XtraDB Cluster performance, PXC-5.7/8.0 features as part of his tenure at MySQL/Oracle (as InnoDB developer) and Percona (as PXC product lead). With a wide interest in data management like studying big-data problems at Yahoo labs or developing a hardware-accelerated MySQL custom storage engine for a startup (now part of Teradata).

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Kyle is the reason Percona events actually happen. He runs the global events programme — Percona Live, Percona.connect, and our presence at Open Source Summit, KubeCon, and dozens of regional events each year. If you’ve grabbed a sticker at one of our booths, he probably packed the box it came in.

Before Percona he ran executive events at Utah Valley University, after years in event marketing, communications, and production. He cares about the unglamorous details that make a room full of people feel looked after: clear logistics, honest communication, and enough contingency plans that the inevitable surprises don’t wreck the day.

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MySQL Expert

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Laura is a Developer Ecosystem Leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling high-impact technical communities. She began her career in Software QA, a technical foundation that led her to discover a passion for open source and a natural transition into community management and leadership. From her foundational leadership at the University of Limerick to serving on Ubuntu’s Community Council and EMEA Membership Board, Laura has dedicated her career to the art of community governance.

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Lenz Grimmer supports and leads the engineering teams at Percona that work on server products like Percona Server for MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and related components. He’s been involved in Linux and Open Source technologies in various roles and capacities since the mid-90s and has worked at companies like SUSE, MySQL, Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

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Leonardo joined Percona as a Support Engineer in 2019 where he works mainly with MySQL and MongoDB. Leonardo has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and has been working with databases for the last 8 years.

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Open Source Advocate | Community Organizer | Program Manager | Speaker

Lori Lorusso is the Head of Community at Percona, where she brings developers, database experts, and open-source enthusiasts together. She is passionate about building strong technical communities, driving conversations around database performance, and making open-source knowledge accessible. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling and exploring new cultures.

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Community Manager for Percona

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Marcelo Altmann is a C++ Software Engineer on MySQL related products @ Percona. At Percona he has also worked as a Senior Support Engineer and a Tech Lead of the Support Team. Prior to joining Percona , he worked as a MySQL DBA at Ireland’s CCTLD, and worked as a DBA/PHP developer in Brazil. Its focuses are Database Administration, specifically MySQL.

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After 12 years working as a developer for local and remote firms, Marcos decided to pursuit true love and become full time DBA, so he has been doing MySQL Support at Percona for the past 8+ years, providing lead web properties with advise on anything-MySQL and in-depth system performance analysis.

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Mario has been an active Open Source contributor for more than 15 years. Technical Evangelist @ Percona. Python developer with experience automating stuff and web development. Speaker at tech and innovation events since 2008. DevOps enthusiast. Member of GitLab Heroes, GitKraken Ambassadors and HashiCorp Ambassadors.

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Valkey and Redis tech lead @Percona

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Matt Yonkovit was Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS) at Percona. He has over 15 years in open source, including more than 10 years leading teams. That mix covers both the technical and business side of open source databases: hands-on work, management, and building teams. At Percona he ran or helped run service delivery (consulting, support, managed services), customer success, product management, marketing, and operations, and later OSPO, community, and developer relations. He hosted the HOSS talks FOSS podcast and writes about MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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MySQL Expert

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Mayank Shah is a Senior Software Engineer at Percona and works on the Percona Cloud Team. He specializes in Kubernetes, operators, and building cloud-native applications. Passionate about Kubernetes and databases, Mayank enjoys designing systems that make managing data infrastructure simpler and more reliable.

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Michael Coburn, is Principal Architect at Percona. Michael joined Percona as a Consultant in 2012 after having worked with high-volume stock photography websites and email service provider platforms. With a foundation in Systems Administration, Michael acted as Product Manager responsible for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM).

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Michal Nosek is a Senior Enterprise Architect at Percona with over a decade of experience across roles in software engineering, business analysis, and technical consulting. He combines deep technical knowledge with a focus on aligning database technologies to business goals, helping Percona’s global customers design effective open source data strategies. Michal holds a BS in Computer and Information Science from the Cracow University of Technology and lives in Gdansk, Poland, where he enjoys traveling and windsurfing.

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Michael is currently a US based Technical Account Manager at Percona, originally joining the team as a consultant in 2012. Prior to Percona, Michael spent several years in a DevOps role in a company that developed and maintained a SaaS application specializing in social networking. His experiences include application development and scaling, systems administration, along with database administration and design. He enjoys designing extensible and exible solutions to problems and has a strong background in HA systems. He lives with his family in Moore, Oklahoma. When not working, he enjoys hiking, rock climbing, archery, y shing, and traveling with the family.

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Mohit joined Percona in 2019 as a Senior QA Engineer, working across MySQL, PostgreSQL and Percona XtraBackup. He focuses on improving product quality by designing stress tests, validating edge cases, and building automation frameworks - including pstress, a custom stress-testing framework.

Before joining Percona, Mohit worked at Oracle Corporation, where he contributed to testing security features in MySQL. He is passionate about breaking systems in creative ways to build software that is reliable, secure, and production-ready.

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Mykola is an engineering leader with 20 years of experience in making database cluster management boring. His career has centred on building managed services, monitoring, backups, and automated deployment and upgrade systems. He has a longstanding love of MySQL and intends to build the best DBaaS Platform.

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Natalia is a software engineer at Percona, working on Kubernetes operators for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. She joined Percona in 2022 as a DevOps engineer, working on release automation and operator testing, and moved to operator development in 2024. Before that, five years as an SRE running production infrastructure under real SLAs.

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Nickolay Ihalainen is currently working as a Senior Technical Support Engineer at Percona He handled emergency and data recovery cases, and for the last several years helped Percona’s customers with complex performance issues and MySQL crashes.

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16 yrs experience with database technologies, 9+ years experience with PostgreSQL technology

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Nurlan Moldomurov is a skilled software engineer with over 10 years of experience in building high-performance services and web/mobile platforms. Specializing in backend development with Golang for the past seven years, he also has expertise in Java, Ruby, and C#. With a strong background in leading teams, Nurlan combines technical excellence with effective communication, ensuring seamless execution from concept to reality across mobile, web, and database solutions. His attention to detail and commitment to quality make him a valuable asset in software development.

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Agile Facilitator, PMM

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Pep has been working with databases all his life. Born in a small village by the Mediterranean, he currently lives in Barcelona. He loves tech, traveling, good food, music, and all things NASA. He hates talking about himself in the third person and has a particular sense of humor. Happily married, he is the father of three boys and three cats.

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Open Source Contributor

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Peter Farkas is a seasoned open source leader with over 15 years of experience building sustainable open source projects and businesses. He currently serves as the CEO of Percona, a global leader in open source database software and services.

Before joining Percona, Peter was the Co-Founder and CEO of FerretDB, the truly open source MongoDB alternative that enables developers to use MongoDB drivers seamlessly with PostgreSQL as the backend.

Peter is a strong advocate for open source solutions, believing that they can drive innovation and sustainable growth on par with-or beyond-proprietary software.

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k8s Expert

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Co‑founder of Percona and one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization. Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two‑person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. A serial entrepreneur, he co‑founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science. He is a co‑author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at open source database conferences and has contributed articles to outlets such as Fortune and DZone.

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Open source databases enthusiast specializing in MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, etc. Przemek joined Support Team at Percona in 2012. Before that he spent over five years working for Wikia.com (now Fandom.com) as System Administrator where he was a key person responsible for seamless building up MySQL powered database infrastructure. Besides MySQL he worked on maintaining all other parts of LAMP stack, with main focus on automation, monitoring and backups.

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Head of MongoDB Engineering and Product at Percona.

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Radoslaw is a Senior Product Manager at Percona and is responsible for driving Percona Software for MongoDB. He has more than 15 years of experience in building distributed applications as a product manager, leader, and software engineer. Radek is an Agile product development enthusiast and a fan of personal development. Outside of work, he’s an amateur handball and volleyball player.

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C++ Software Engineer in Percona

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Technical Writer, PMM

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Open Source Contributor

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Database Engineer

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Database Engineer

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Database Engineer

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Building on a strong foundation in technical support, Sandra is currently a Staff QA Engineer at Percona, where her analytical problem-solving and drive to dig deep into how systems work shape the automation framework for MongoDB.

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Sergey is a support engineer in Percona. Interested in all things databases, he’s currently working mainly with MySQL and PostgreSQL. He started his career working as an Oracle DBA, later moving to a DevOps engineer role supporting a Java-based trading platform running on PostgreSQL. After being a jack of all trades for a while, he’s now focusing on what he enjoys most: open source databases, systems performance, and reliability.

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Sergey is a product leader at Percona focusing on delivering robust open-source database and cloud-native solutions. Prior to Percona Sergey led product management and engineering teams in other organizations with a primary focus on products in infrastructure and platforms space.

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Senior Software Developer in Test at Percona, focused on quality, automation, and reliable releases.

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Open Source Contributor

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Sonia is data enthusiast who started working in PostgreSQL in the year 2012. Since she has performed multiple migrations from Oracle to PostgreSQL, she learnt Oracle while working with PostgreSQL. She is a SME for beginner-level course on Open Source Database-PostgreSQL in one of her previous company. She has conducted multiple trainings on PostgreSQL for freshers as well as experienced professionals. Also, she has been an active participant at pgConf and has given lightning talk. She has worked extensively in Taxation as well as manufacturing based projects for Indian as well as African sub- continent.

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Anastasia ‘Stacy’ Rostova (Raspopina) is now a Communications Manager at ProxySQL, the company developing an open source HA protocol aware proxy for MySQL and its forks (Percona Server, MariaDB). Previously she worked at Percona as a Marketing Specialist responsible for internal company communications, event management, promotional activities, content generation and other special projects. Prior to this Stacy was in charge of HighLoad++ and RIT++, large tech conferences in Russia boasting thousands of attendees.

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Stefan Fercot is a Senior Software Engineer at Percona, working on PostgreSQL and its ecosystem as part of Percona’s PostgreSQL Engineering team, with a primary focus on pgBackRest development and upstream open-source contributions.

As a long-time pgBackRest contributor, Stefan has a particular interest in backup tools, disaster recovery procedures and high-availability architectures. He is also Vice-Treasurer of PostgreSQL Europe, reflecting his active involvement in the PostgreSQL community.

Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@pgstef

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Technology leader who thrives in challenging, fast-paced environments committed to delivering solutions and value to both the internal and external customer. Rich mix of business management and technology coupled with demonstrated ability to lead multiple development teams on multiple platforms focusing on meeting performance, operational and financial objectives.

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Sveta joined Percona in 2015. Her main professional interests are problem solving, working with tricky issues, bugs, finding patterns that can solve typical issues quicker and teaching others how to deal with MySQL issues, bugs and gotchas effectively. Before joining Percona Sveta worked as a Support Engineer in the MySQL Bugs Analysis Support Group in MySQL AB-Sun-Oracle. She is the author of the books “MySQL Troubleshooting” and “MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition”.

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Experienced Architect, technically leading the successful completion, from presales and requirements to delivery, of more than 13 large scale (multi-million Euro cumulative budget) private and public sector IT projects, in the areas of Enterprise Content Management, Digital Publishing, SaaS, Cloud infrastructure & Operations. Involved in international projects, part of a international highly competitive team delivering cutting edge solutions. Deep knowledge of virtualisation, Cloud, SaaS and Content Management technologies and architectures, including hands on experience on selected areas.

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Agile Facilitator, PMM

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Tom Basil is Chief of Staff at Percona.

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Product Manager

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Umair counts 20 years experience in PostgreSQL and open source experience serving some of the highly competitive technology markets in USA & Europe in roles of increasing responsibility. Proven track record of the unique ability to bridge the gap between business objectives and engineering :

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Co‑founder of Percona and co‑author of High Performance MySQL. Vadim has deep expertise in database scalability and performance, with a long history in the IT and services industry. His professional skills span scalability, performance tuning, and software engineering, and his contributions — including co‑authoring one of the most influential books on MySQL optimization — have helped shape Percona into a trusted name in the open source database community. Vadim is also a frequent speaker at open source and database conferences, where he shares practical insights on performance and scalability.

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Valeria works closely with community users of PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB, analyzing their adoption patterns and demonstrating the transformative value open source databases bring to businesses. Her understanding of the technical and business aspects of multi-model database capabilities and extensibility helps her articulate its benefits to C-level executives and other key stakeholders.

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Vinicius Grippa was a Senior Support Engineer at Percona, where he joined the Support team in 2017. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and more than 13 years of experience with database systems. He has designed databases for critical applications and, in recent years, specialized in MySQL and MongoDB. At Percona he helped customers with hundreds of cases across a wide range of scenarios and complexities.

Vinicius is active in the open source community: Slack, meetups, and talks in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

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Vinodh Krishnaswamy is a Support Engineer at Percona. Vinodh loves to work in a team as a team player, leading the team, solving problems and partying with them. His friends/colleagues call him “Guruji”, who shares the knowledge. He agreed to join our community meetup and to share his knowledge about MongoDB. He helped many clients to move into MongoDB and solved their problem to deal with huge data and reducing the focus on Normalization / design of RDBMS & focus on handling data.

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When I’m not working with MySQL or other Open-source software packages. I like to do woodworking, 3D design and Printing, listening to all forms of Metal music and electronic projects with Raspberry PI, Arduino. Wayne lives in Powell Ohio, with his wife, daughter, 6 cats and 2 dogs.

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Open Source Contributor

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Database Engineer

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Yunus is experienced Database administrator currently working in Percona as MySQL DBA II. He lives in Mumbai, India. Always keen to explore new open source tools.

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MySQL Expert

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Zsolt joined Percona as a software developer in 2017 and has been working on Percona’s database products ever since, initially focusing on MySQL and later switching to PostgreSQL.

He likes to focus on things that make life easier and safer: encryption, authentication, extensibility, testing, and tooling.

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Agustín joined Percona’s Support team in December 2013, after being part of the Administrative team from February 2012. He has previously worked as a Cambridge IT examinations Supervisor and as a Junior BI, SQL & C# developer. He is currently a Computer Analyst, and continues studying to get a Computer Systems Engineer degree at the Universidad de la República, in Uruguay.

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Ananias Tsalouchidis is a Principal MySQL DBA who joined Percona on May 2017. He holds a BSc and a MSc in computer science and has a 10+ years working experience as a systems and databases administrator. He loves databases and perl scripting. He has worked for some big Greek companies and academic institutions and has also been involved in numerous research programs. He is located in Greece.

Andrew Pogrebnoi

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Andrew Pogrebnoi is Principal Software Engineer at Percona. He says: “I like to make fast, reliable and valuable things. Try to keep it working, consistent and available. Enjoyed with compilers, databases, distributed systems, and performance.”

dmitry_lenev

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Principal Software Engineer at Percona Corporation. Part of the team which develops Percona Server for MySQL, Percona’s fork of Oracle’s MySQL Server. Before that, member of MySQL Runtime Team at Oracle for 19 years, involved in development of New Data Dictionary in MySQL 8.0, MetaData Locking subsystem in MySQL 5.7 and several other areas (DDL, Triggers, …).

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Ege Güneş is Senior Software Engineer at Percona. Ege has both developer and DevOps background, managing Kubernetes clusters and databases in the past. He started as a software developer in 2016. He joined the Cloud Engineering Team as a Golang Developer to help with Kubernetes Operators development.

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Fernando joined Percona in early 2013 after 8 years working for a Canadian company specialized in Linux and Open Source technologies. As a member of Percona’s Support team, Fernando works closely with customers helping them troubleshoot issues with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB servers and looking for answers to various database-related questions and challenges. He also has a personal interest in education in general and loves to read and talk about this subject.

Kimberly Wilkins

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Kimberly Wilkins is MongoDB Technical Lead at Percona currently. She has over 20 years experience managing and architecting database systems. She worked with MongoDB customers of all sizes in many industries and helped them to plan, deploy, troubleshoot, tune, and horizontally shard and scale to handle heavy workloads and keep their applications running and their businesses growing.

Kyle Davis

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Kyle Davis is the General Manager of the Redis-Valkey Ecosystem at Percona. Although he is relatively new to Percona, Kyle has a long history in software development and databases. When not working, Kyle enjoys 3D printing, and getting his hand dirty in his Edmonton, Alberta-based home garden.

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