Contributors 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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IT professional with 10+ years experience, mainly in large commercial environments. Expertise in MySQL, MariaDB, Big Data, Bash , Unix systems and Python development. Aftab’s LinkedIn Profile

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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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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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Aleksandar is a Data Engineer at MessageBird, an IT Telecom Startup based in Amsterdam. His mission is to bring accessible data to every nook and cranny in the business. In the data team in MessageBird he is working on designing, building and maintaining the data infrastructure with a focus on scaling it as the business grows.

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Alexander Korotkov is a PostgreSQL Major Contributor & Committer, and Ph.D. in computer science. He contributed many fields of PostgreSQL including indexing, statistics, concurrency, extensibility, and more. In 2015 Alexander co-founded and became the technical chief and development officer at Postgres Professional in Moscow. He is the inventor behind OrioleDB who seeks to deliver the solutions to PostgreSQL wicked problems.

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Alexander has worked with MySQL since 2000 as a DBA and Application Developer. He has performed MySQL consulting as a principal consultant/architect for over 13 years, starting with MySQL AB in 2006, then Sun Microsystems, then Oracle and then Percona. Alex has helped many customers design large, scalable, and highly available MySQL systems and optimize MySQL performance. He has also helped customers design Big Data stores with Apache Hadoop and related technologies. Currently, Alexander is a Director of Data Architecture at VirtualHealth.

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Alexander is a co-founder of Altinity. He has 20 years of engineering and engineering management experience in several international companies. Alexander is an expert in high scale analytics systems design and implementation. He designed and deployed petabyte-scale data warehouses, including one of the earliest ClickHouse deployments outside of Yandex.

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Alexandre is an open source enthusiast experienced in troubleshooting and resolving scalability issues across the full software stack. In industry and academia, he scaled up data processing from terabytes to petabytes, while minimizing data losses below acceptable level. Early in his career Alexandre pioneered deployment of MySQL databases on Virtual Machines. Alexandre is a Senior Database Administrator at Five9, an industry-leading provider of cloud contact center solutions.

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Alexey Mikotkin is a software engineer at Devart. He leads a team that develops SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle tools. The team’s main development environment is .NET. Alexey has a great experience in development of applications (backend/frontend). New technologies are the focus of Alexey’s interest.

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Alexey Milovidov was the original designer of ClickHouse, starting from its inception in 2008. He is an expert on high-performance C++, analytic applications, and SQL databases. Alexey is the lead committer of the ClickHouse open source project on Github. He leads the ClickHouse development team at Yandex and speaks regularly at community events

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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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Amanda is CEO of OpenUK, (@amandabrockUK @openuk_UK), representing the business of Open Technology in the UK. That’s open source software, open hardware and open data”; OpenUK; European Representative of the world’s biggest defensive patent pool, the Open Invention Network; OASIS Open Projects’ Advisory Council Member (open source and open standards); Advisory Board Member KDE; Charity Trustee Creative Crieff; and a member of various commercial and start up Advisory Boards including Mimoto as well as mentoring C Suite individuals.

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Amos Bird (郑天祺) is a software engineer at KuaiShou Technologies in China. He graduated from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, with a Doctor’s degree in Database Systems. He is an active ClickHouse contributor for over more than three years, and have accomplished some major improvements such as PROJECTIONs, ClickHouse-ETL, Balanced JBOD with HA, StringHashMap, etc.

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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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Team lead and developer working on various e-commerce and IOT products. Over 3 years of experience in Lamoda, one of the largest e-commerce site in Russia. Current project is a new IOT platform for rapid development fast effective scalable IOT and IIOT solutions.

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Software Engineer, PMM

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Anna Widenius is a Chief of Sta in the MariaDB Foundation.

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Dashboards engineer, Percona Monitoring and Management.

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Antonios Giannopoulos is a Senior Database Administrator at ObjectRocket supporting MongoDB, Elastic and CockroachDB. Antonios has 18 years of experience in databases and system engineering. He really enjoys challenges in sharding and schema design and loves migrations from Relational to NoSQL world.

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Currently working on Presto @ Facebook.

Previous was Apache Cassandra committer and PMC member

Before that I was the third engineer to start working on VoltDB back when it was incubating in Vertica and we called it Horizontica.

I enjoy developing scalable, reliable, consistently fast distributed systems and applications built on distributed systems as well as enabling other developers to be successful in selecting and using said systems through design, documentation, and implementation.

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Making stuff work. Solving problems. Organising things. Connecting people. Coming up with new angles.

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Art van Scheppingen is a Senior Database Engineer at MessageBird with focus on database scalability and reliability. He’s a pragmatic MySQL and Database expert with over 20 years experience in web development. He previously worked in various database architectural roles and as Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. He has experience with a broad spectrum of (open source) databases: from MySQL to MongoDB, Cassandra to Hadoop and from Sphinx Search to SOLR. He regularly presents his work and projects at various conferences (Percona Live, Community Open House for MongoDB, FOSDEM) and related meetups.

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Open Source Contributor

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Atish is a Distributed Database Systems Engineer, and works in a DevOps team focusing on operational Databases and Data Infrastructure. He is passionate about highly available, scalable database systems & data pipelines. He’s a data engineering enthusiast and a MongoDB certified professional.

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Founder & CEO at 68 Koncept Inc, MySQL Expert, Entrepreneur, Author of Glial (PHP framework) & PmaControl (MySQL Tools)

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Avi is the founder & CEO of Scarf, a software engineer, and open-source advocate. Scarf is building advanced maintainer-friendly tools for open-source software distribution, analytics, and commercialization. Software engineer, functional programming enthusiast, open-source maintainer Former engineer at Pandora. Among other things, I built a concert recommendation system with Songkick and Ticketfly integrations to help people find great concerts.

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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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CNCF Ambassador. Data on Kubernetes (@Dokcommunity) Community Leader, amateur rapper, tech from the human side. My bananas are my own.

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Beinan builds large scale distributed SQL systems (presto&hive) for Twitter’s data platform team.

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benny is the Chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, with a long history in business and community building and an undying love of open source.

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Technical Account Management, MayaData. Brian Matheson helps enterprise PaaS teams turn Kubernetes into a Data Plane for hosting Stateful Applications. A serial entrepreneur with an intense customer focus, Brian has helped a number of startups in a technical capacity, and is currently @ MayaData. Twitter @brian_matheson.

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Brian is a U.S. Marine turned software engineer and developer advocate working to foster the open-source Trino community. Brian spent four years as a data engineer at a cybersecurity company working on pipeline maintenance and query optimization. While in this role, Brian was responsible for maintaining data pipelines and migrations to include replacing some legacy data warehousing systems to use open-source Trino. Brian is a published author in ACM and IEEE geospatial database conferences.

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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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Bruce Momjian is co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He has been employed by EDB since 2006. He has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Prior to his involvement with PostgreSQL, Bruce worked as a consultant, developing custom database applications for some of the world’s largest law firms. As an academic, Bruce holds a Masters in Education, was a high school computer science teacher, and lectures internationally at universities.

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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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Carsten Thalheimer has worked for over 20 years in IT industry world-leading technology companies, focusing on many aspects of a technology business. He worked for Integrata AG, SCO Group Inc., Tarantella Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. His long-standing passion for open-source technology led him to Open-/Star Oce and Cloud Oce in Sun Microsystems/Oracle. In 2011 he joined the MySQL GBU as a Solution Engineer helping leading customers across EMEA to successfully shape their projects. Since 2020 Carsten focuses on advising strategic customers in the EMEA region on the use of Oracle MySQL Databases and HeatWave/Analytics Engine Services. His focus is on architectural planning of MySQL database concepts for business-critical deployments.

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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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I’m a tech journalist and reporter, who has experience in marketing and content strategy, and I have undertaken multiple projects internationally for enterprise clients.

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Charles Thompson is a DBA with a passion for maximizing MySQL database performance. He combines this expertise with his proficiency in Python to craft tools that automate tasks in his daily life along with contributing to open-source projects benefiting the community. Currently serving as a Senior Database Engineer at DigitalOcean.

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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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Chris was always fascinated by systems and data integration between on-premises systems, clouds, and their combination. As a Solutions Architect at Google Cloud (Google, Inc.) he is focusing on databases, data migration, multi-cloud database deployments, and data integration in enterprise customer settings. Earlier in his career, Chris contributed to Enterprise Application System Integration (EAI), Business-to-Business Integration (B2B) as well as workflow management. In addition to implementing these technologies, he wrote several books on these topics and is publishing actively (see his professional page at www.real-programmer.com).

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Chunxu is a software engineer in Twitter’s Interactive Query team where he works on developing and maintaining Presto and Druid services. He received his doctoral degree from Syracuse University, where he did research on machine learning and distributed collaboration systems.

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Experienced Director Of Software Development with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Strong professional skilled in IoT, java, golang, dotnet and a proven track record delivering high-quality features on-time. Clint enjoy being a mentor and others with technical challenges.

Currently working with a not-quite-startup in the exciting space of zero-trust app-embedded security via the openziti project. Developer and customer advocacy is his passion though he does whatever needs to get done.

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Businessperson, open source consultant, technical architect, experienced community builder based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Colin Charles is a Consultant at Codership, the makers of Galera Cluster. Previously, Colin was on the founding team of MariaDB Server, and has been around the MySQL ecosystem including being an early employee at MySQL, and worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. Colin has been a MySQL user since 2000.

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Corey is CTO and Co-Founder of Mattermost, Inc. which is an enterprise messaging workspace for teams to collaborate securely and effectively. He previously founded Tempo AI, an artificial intelligence startup. Earlier in his career, Corey served as engineering manager and architect for Microsoft Office. He was also an architect for VerticalNet, a publicly traded enterprise software company providing supply chain management solutions for the Global 2000.

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After a reasonable amount of time doing development and IT security work, Daniel landed a DBA Consultant job and loved it.

After writing a few too many bug fixes without a client to bill them to, he joined IBM to make MariaDB and MySQL scale on IBM POWER.

The love for the community brought him to MariaDB Foundation where he embraces the innovation of contributors and users to make MariaDB better for everyone.

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I am proud to work for the Percona Community Team.

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Danish Wadhwa is a doyen of governing the digital content to assemble good relationships for enterprises or individuals. He is specialized in digital marketing, cloud computing, web designing and offers other valuable IT services for organizations, eventually enhancing their shape by delivering stupendous solutions to their business problems.

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Dave Cohen is the Storage Solutions CTO in Intel’s Non-Volatile Memory and Storage (NVMS) Group and the Chief Architect of Intel’s Data Management Platform. This is a rack-centric, physical cluster that builds on the Intel Rack Scale Design (RSD). Dave has been at Intel for five years working on a variety of network and storage related solutions. His career spans over 30 years working on large scale, distributed systems for Fortune 500 companies across several industry segments.

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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 Berube is a freelance Ruby on Rails developer and MySQL performance consultant. He specializes in maintaining legacy systems. He authored the books “Practical Rails Gems” and “Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails”, and co-authored the book “Practical Rails Plugins," and he’s written for venues like Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Linux Pro Magazine, and IBM DeveloperWorks. Website: berubeconsulting.com

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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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David Duncan is helpful answering questions or solving problems involving Cloud systems and the use of support tools on Fedora and Fedora Cloud images. He is currently working as Principal Partner Solutions Architect and technical Linux lead focused on Platform Ecosystem Partners. Keenly focused on open source software and upstream contributions. Strong connection to development and configuration process.

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David is a Principal Architect in SRE, Database and Cloud. Previously he was the Practice Manager for MongoDB at Percona, and before that, he was one of the early members for ObjectRocket the leader in DBaaS for MongoDB specializing in performance. Other previous roles include Database System and Technology Architect as Electronic Arts. As a speaker, he prefers to focus on solutions in the real world to issues, to this point he tries to regularly publish code to help everyone use his solutions or have ideas to inspire their own. Additionally, he is a Mongo Master Alumni and core code contributor to MongoDB, MySQL, and other open source technologies.

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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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Zhao Wei (David Zhao) has been working on database kernels throughout his career. He worked on Oracle Berkeley DB and MySQL in the two outstanding global teams in Oracle during 2007 and 2015, and he worked in Tencent to upgrade its TDSQL from a table sharding solution to a full-fledged distributed DBMS.

He left Tencent and started the kunlun distributed DBMS project and you can find more about this project in Kunlun and ZettaDB

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Founder of Kunlun Distributed DBMS. Formerly worked in Oracle Berkeley DB and MySQL teams from 2007 to 2015 as database kernel developer. Since October 2015, worked in TDSQL team of Tencent as database kernel developer, took the initiative to design and implement the distributed transaction processing and distributed query processing features of TDSQL. Left Tencent in July 2019 and started working on Kunlun distributed DBMS.

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Denis Magda has spent half of his career working on distributed systems, applications, and databases. His experience spans from the development of distributed database engines and high-performance applications to training and education on the topic of distributed and cloud computing. Presently, Denis runs the Developer Relations team at Yugabyte and serves as a PMC Member for Apache Ignite. He started his professional career at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he led a Java development group and worked on technology evangelism efforts.

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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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As a technologist excited about open source database systems and the businesses that they power, Derek is enthusiastic about efficiency through automation, Operational Visibility, and the adoption of Cloud Technologies.

Derek has helped with many customers implement automation for their critical database tasks.

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Dinesh is a Committer on the Apache Cassandra project. Dinesh has been a professional Software Engineer for over a decade building highly scalable realtime Web Services and Distributed Streaming Data Processing Architectures serving over 1 billion devices. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science (Distributed Systems & Databases) from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA.

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Dipti is the co-founder and CPO of Ahana with over 15 years experience in distributed data and database technology including relational, NoSQL and federated systems. She is also the Presto Foundation Outreach Chairperson. Prior to Ahana, Dipti held VP roles at Alluxio, Kinetica and Couchbase. At Alluxio, she was Vice President of Products and at Couchbase she held several leadership positions there including VP, Product Marketing, Head of Global Technical Sales and Head of Product Management. Earlier in her career Dipti managed development teams at IBM DB2 Distributed where she started her career as a database software engineer. Dipti holds a M.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

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Database Engineer

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Dmitry Polyakovsky is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Cloud and has been working with Redis for over a decade. Throughout his career, he has explored Redis in various applications, contributed open-source libraries, written insightful blog articles, and shared his expertise through conference talks and podcast interviews.

Currently, Dmitry leads the OCI Cache service at Oracle Cloud and is excited to be part of the Valkey project.

Outside of work, he enjoys hiking around Seattle and spending quality time with his family.

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I’m a Systems engineer at Hostinger. I love solving non-trivial issues. You can find more posts I wrote on

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MySQL DBA, KakaoBank

Dongchan is DBA at KakaoBank, the Korean internet bank. He is very interested in data efficient processing and automation. His final goal is building unbreakable data system. He is interested in all elements (monitoring, automation) for a stable system configuration. https://gywn.blog

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Dor Laor is the CEO of ScyllaDB. Previously, Dor was part of the founding team of the KVM hypervisor under Qumranet that was acquired by Red Hat. At Red Hat Dor was managing the KVM and Xen development for several years. Dor holds an MSc from the Technion and a PhD in snowboarding.

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Dr Gavin Mendel-Gleason is CTO of TerminusDB. He is a former research fellow at Trinity College Dublin in the School of Statistics and Computer Science. His research focuses on databases, logic and verification in software engineering. His work includes contributing to the Seshat global historical databank, an ambitious project to record and analyse patterns in human history. He is the inventor of the Web Object Query Language and the primary architect of TerminusDB. He is interested in improving the best practices of the software development community and a strong believer in formal methods and the use of mathematics and logic as disciplines to increase the quality and robustness of software.

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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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Developer working on Tarantool. Several years of experience in solution implementation, focused in high performance tasks. Current projects include Tarantool Cartridge (a framework for creating distributed apps), an Ansible role for it to deploy these apps, and a command-line utility for the framework.

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Emily Gorcenski is Head of Data for ThoughtWorks, Germany.

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Evgeniy Patlan is Manager, Build & Release Engineering Team at Percona. He is experienced Build And Release Engineer, Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Perl, JavaScript, Python, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), SOAP, and Linux System Administration. Strong engineering professional with a specialist focused in Computer systems, Programming, System Administrating, Network Technologies.

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Federico is the author of pg_chameleon a replication tool from MySQL to PostgreSQL developed in Python 3.3+

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Félix is a Data Engineer at MessageBird, an IT Telecom Startup based in Amsterdam. With the data team of MessageBird he is working on building and managing various data pipelines with a focus on scalability and real-time. He also worked on designing and deploying the ClickHouse cluster and now is busy with running and scaling.

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Flavius Mecea is a software and operations engineer at Presslabs. A vivid builder and avid reader, Flavius is always up to something—exploring untapped possibilities using Kubernetes & Go, mentoring students into the secrets of algorithms and DevOps or playing with hardware and machine learning. He’s a high-spirited person and an all-time helper that always meets a new day with curiosity.

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Francesco is an enthusiastic engineer focused on building the next generation of a self-service and cost-effective streaming data platform. Event-Drive addicted. Apache Kafka fun. Kafka Summit and Meetup speaker. Currently, he is Principal Engineer at Nutmeg.

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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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Principal Data Engineer at UnitedHealth Group, for Oracle and MySQL. When he is not working or coding, Fran likes to backpack visiting new places and experiencing different cultures.

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“@lefred” has been consulting OpenSource and MySQL for almost 20 years. After graduating in Management Information Technology, Frédéric Descamps started his career as a developer for an ERP under HPUX. He will then opt for a career in the world of open-source by joining one of the first Belgian start-up dedicated 100% to free projects around GNU/Linux. It is in 2011 that lefred joined Percona, one of the leading MySQL-based specialists. He decided to join the MySQL Community Team in 2016 as a MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. Frédéric is also a regular speaker of OpenSource Conferences. His blog mostly dedicated to MySQL is http://lefred.be Fred is also the devoted father of three adorable daughters: Wilhelmine, Héloïse & Barbara.

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Gabe Weiss had a first career as an actor and shifted into tech. He has found a job that neatly marries both of his careers into one job. Being a developer advocate means he gets the freedom to continually learn new skills and new ways of doing things, and then turn around and teach others how to do it. Through speaking in public, videos and blogs, he gets to reach a wide audience.

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Hi, I am Gabi! I am a Data Engineer working as a Developer Advocate.

My mission is to make database development not only a task achievable for DBAs but the every day developer. Questions? My Twitter DM are open: http://twitter.com/gabidavila

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Gabriel has been dedicated to databases as a DBA and consultant for the last 15 years. He has led and participated in multiple projects across many technologies, including Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and MongoDB. Gabriel defines himself as an automation super fan and he contributed to the development of two custom DBaaS platforms.

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Gary is a solutions architect at AWS where he works with some of the world’s largest Enterprise customers to understand their business drivers, assess application portfolios, and design reliable and cost-effective cloud native architectures. Previously he was an enterprise architect at Paychex and a Sr. Manager of Technology Architecture Delivery at Accenture. He holds 8 AWS certifications.

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Gaurav Belani is a senior SEO and content marketing analyst at Growfusely, a content marketing agency that specializes in data-driven SEO. He has more than seven years of experience in digital marketing and loves to read and write about AI, machine learning, data science, and other emerging technologies. In his spare time, he enjoys watching movies and listening to music. Connect with him Linkedin and Twitter at @belanigaurav

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Geir Høydalsvik has been working on the MySQL Database since 2008. He is currently an independent MySQL advocate. In the period from 2010 to 2025 he worked for Oracle and was responsible for the development and maintenance of the MySQL Database. He has a background in the database industry, working for the database startup company Clustra Inc. on the Clustra database (2000-2002) and for Sun Microsystems on Java DB (2002-2008). He has a Master degree in Computer Science (1991) and a PhD in Software Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (1997).

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I have held the role of MySQL DBA for the last eight years. Prior to 2012, I was a Linux admin who worked with RHEL and CentOS. Today, I work for CVS as part of their Open Source team, specifically the lead engineer for MySQL/MariaDB.

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Software Engineer & Engineering Manager

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Georgi “Joro” Kodinov has been working on MySQL for more than 10 years. He’s leading the Server General team that deals with security, performance monitoring and the mysql client server protocol. Before working on databases Joro was serving as an IT manager for a Bulgarian bank.

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Software Explorer and creator of tools. Formerly at MySQL AB, and then through acquisitions at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, and currently at VMware through a merge. I am an active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast. During the past decades, I have worked in various IT related fields, with a focus on databases, software development, quality assurance, and system administration. Fluent in Italian, English, Go, Spanish, SQL, Bash, and good speaker of C, French, and Perl. I work in cyberspace, with a virtual team.

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Formerly at MySQL AB, and then through acquisitions at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, and currently at VMware through a merge.

I am active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast. During the past decades I have worked in various IT related elds, with focus on databases, software development, quality assurance, and system administration. Fluent in Italian, English, Go, Spanish, SQL, Bash, and good speaker of C, French, and Perl. I work in cyberspace, with a virtual team.

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Gurnish’s career has been with Oracle, in Technical Management, and now with MySQL. On the personal front, I live/work in San Francisco, and in my free time I zip around in single engine airplanes around the bay!

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Guy Harrison is CTO at Southbank Software, a database and blockchain tools company. He is the author of MongoDB Performance Tuning, Next Generation Databases, MySQL Stored Procedure Programming and many other books, articles and presentations on database technology. He writes the “MongoDB Matters” and “Emerging Technologies” columns at Database Trends and Applications.

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Founded Falarica Analytics which was acquired by YugabyteDB. Founding engineer with SnappyData which was acquired by TIBCO. More than 18 years of experience in building and delivering products like distributed databases, distributed query processing engines and distributed KV stores.

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Open Source expert, with 13+ years experience with open source databases. One of the leading European experts both in MySQL and MongoDB databases. Particular interest in distributed systems and performance. I also have experience from several business management roles, such as managing 25 mobile developers and as COO and Advisor at 2 startups in the MySQL space.

I’ve contributed code to Linux, Drupal and impress.js. I’ve volunteered on the OSI license review process almost from the beginning. I’m the author of a book “Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source”

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Himank is the Tech Lead of Docstore at Uber. His primary focus area is building distributed databases that scale along with Uber’s hyper-growth. Prior to Uber, he worked at Yahoo in the mail backend team to build a metadata store. Himank holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York with a specialization in distributed systems. Himank has proven ability to learn challenging concepts quickly and he has developed competencies in diverse areas. He easily adapt to change and welcome the opportunity of a new environment.

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MySQL Expert

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Ibrar Ahmed is a Software Architect in Percona LLC. Prior to coming to open source development, he had vast experience in software design and development. His main focus was on system-level embedded development. After joining EnterpriseDB in 2006, an Enterprise PostgreSQL company, he started his career in open source development specifically in PostgreSQL. He has contributed to the PostgreSQL community as well as other open source communities. His contribution ranges from the main performance feature enhancements to various PostgreSQL modules. In the database field, he has experience in other well-known databases MySQL, Oracle, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Hadoop. His experience is not limited to core databases, but with the tools related to databases like Hive, HBase, and Spark. He also worked on integrating these tools with PostgreSQL.

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Senior Software Engineer at Percona

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Isobel is a MySQL DBA at New Work SE, using async replication, Galera, and ProxySQL.

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Founder of Triangle Repairs LLC & Turtle Seat

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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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More than 15 years providing support to mission critical environments for first line companies. Experience in various on-prem and cloud platforms running Oracle, MySQL and MongoDB databases. Ivan regularly present talks at conferences and contribute to open-source projects.

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Jaime is the Senior DBA of the Wikimedia Foundation, managing Wikipedia databases.

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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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Jean Joseph is a Data Engineer/DBA, Speaker, IT Event Planner, Blogger, Data Driven Community Builder, Founder & main organizer of Cloud Data Driven User Group & Future Data Driven Summit, highly experienced in Traditional Database, and Big Data technologies with a history of successes in designing, implementing complex technical projects for diverse businesses in various stages of their development.

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Jean-François (J-F, JF or Jeff for short, not just Jean please) is a System/Infrastructure Engineer and a MySQL Expert. In July 2018, he joined MessageBird, an IT telco startup in Amsterdam, with the mission of scaling the MySQL infrastructure. Before that, J-F worked for five years on growing the Booking.com MySQL and MariaDB installations, including dealing with replication bottlenecks (he also works on many other non MySQL related projects that are less relevant here). Some of his latest projects are cracking Master Automatic Failover, making Parallel Replication run faster and promoting Binlog Servers. He also has a good understanding of replication in general and a respectable understanding of InnoDB, MySQL, Linux and TCP/IP. Before B.com, he worked as a System/Network/Storage Administrator in a Linux/VMWare environment, as an Architect for a Mobile Services Provider, and as a C and Java Programmer in an IT Service Company. Even before that, when he was learning computer science, Jeff studied cache consistency in distributed systems and network group communication protocols.
Jean-François’ MySQL Blog | J-F’s LinkedIn Profile | Jeff’s Twitter Account

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Jeremy Frenay is an Engineering manager at Babylon Health. He has been leading Babylon’s Data Operations efforts since late 2017, building the Kafka based data infrastructure, the automation and the tooling required to support teams of software and data engineers working on data integration pipelines in a cloud-native environment.

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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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Currently performance tuning at Databricks. Previously architect of InniDB (now available as MariaDB Columnstore)

Hands-on experience delivering solutions across verticals including Telco, Mobile Marketing, CRM, Genomics, fraud analytics and more.

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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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Johannes Schlüter is a Software Engineering Manager in Oracle’s MySQL Team. After development and management for different MySQL Connectors, he is now leading a new team, working on improving the MySQL experience in Cloud environments. Johannes is a long term Open Source contributor, outside MySQL mostly known as Core Developer and Release Manager for the PHP programming language and runtime.

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Database Engineer

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Jorge Torres is the Co-founder & CEO of MindsDB. He is also a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley researching machine learning automation and explainability. Prior to founding MindsDB, he worked for a number of data-intensive start-ups, most recently working with Aneesh Chopra (the first CTO in the US government) building data systems that analyze billions of patients records and lead to highest savings for millions of patients. He started his work on scaling solutions using machine learning in early 2008 while working as first full time engineer at Couchsurfing where he helped grow the company from a few thousand users to a few million. Jorge had degrees in electrical engineering & computer science, including a masters degree in computer systems (with a focus on applied Machine Learning) from the Australian National University.

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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 joined Percona in 2022 as an Engineering Manager responsible for the PostgreSQL development team. 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 at Percona as well as acting as an open source evangelist.

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Kaj Arnö is CEO of the MariaDB Foundation. He is a software industry generalist, having served as VP Professional Services, VP Engineering, CIO and VP Community Relations of MySQL AB prior to the acquisition by Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Kaj served as MySQL Ambassador to Sun and Sun VP of Database Community. Initiator of Projekt Fredrika, about Swedish Finland on Wikipedia. Past founder, CEO and 14 year main entrepreneur of Polycon Ab (Finland). Kaj is a co-founder of MariaDB Corporation Ab, and served on its Executive Team in several positions, most recently Chief Evangelist. Kaj lives and works in Munich, Germany, and during summer often in Nagu, Finland. He is a citizen of both countries. Kaj holds a M.Sc. (Eng.) from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) and an MBA from Hanken School of Economics. He tweets @kajarno.

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Karthik Appigatla has been working on various large scale data stores for a decade primarily focused on MySQL. Currently, he has been working for LinkedIn for the last 5 years. Prior to LinkedIn, he worked for Yahoo, Pythian and Percona where he was responsible for helping clients scale their databases.

He authored the MySQL 8 cookbook covering the new features and performance tuning of MySQL 8 - https://www.amazon.in/MySQL-8-Cookbook-Karthik-Appigatla-ebook/dp/B0753D434Q

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Karthik was one of the original database engineers at Facebook responsible for building distributed databases including Cassandra and HBase. He is an Apache HBase committer, and also an early contributor to Cassandra, before it was open-sourced by Facebook. He is currently the co-founder and CTO of the company behind YugabyteDB, a fully open-source distributed SQL database for building cloud-native and geo-distributed applications.

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Karthik Satchitanand is one of the maintainers of the CNCF sandbox project LitmusChaos. He is passionate about all things Kubernetes, and is generally interested in DevOps, storage performance/benchmarking & chaos engineering.

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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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MySQL Product Manager focussing on InnoDB, Replication and all things High Availability.

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Senior Scalability Engineer at Booking.com.

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Senior Software Engineer at Percona.

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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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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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@lefred has been consulting OpenSource and MySQL for almost 20 years. After graduating in Management Information Technology, Frédéric Descamps started his career as a developer for an ERP under HPUX. He will then opt for a career in the world of open-source by joining one of the first Belgian start-up dedicated 100% to free projects around GNU/Linux. It is in 2011 that lefred joined Percona, one of the leading MySQL-based specialists. He decided to join the MySQL Community Team in 2016 as a MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. Frédéric is also a regular speaker of OpenSource Conferences. His blog mostly dedicated to MySQL is https://lefred.be. Fred is also the devoted father of three adorable daughters: Wilhelmine, Héloïse & Barbara.

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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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Levi is an infrastructure engineer who works at SmithRx creating HIPAA compliant infrastructure and software for the prescription benefits management industry. He has been building automated systems for over 10 years and working with MySQL and PostgreSQL database management systems for the past 18 years. Previous to SmithRx software that Levi has written can be found at companies such as: Facebook, Cisco, Oracle, JPL-NASA, and other small start-ups in The Bay area.

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Liquan Pei is currently a Senior Software Engineer, Database Kernel at PingCAP. PingCAP is founded by the team that built TiDB.

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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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Lorna Mitchell is currently working as ead of Developer Relations at Aiven. Lorna is a Developer Experience and Open Source specialist. She writes, speaks, and codes, enabling and educating developers everywhere.

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Community Manager for Percona

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Oracle dba last 15 years Mysql dba since…. the pandemic startup

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Lukas Eder is the CEO and founder of Data Geekery GmbH, the company behind JooQ an open source Java framework that gives you an API that allows you to write SQL statements through natural Java api calls.

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Maksim Gramin is a software consultant, researcher and developer passionate about Databases and SQL

Maksim has been working with various database sysytems for about 15 years. He was a SQL developer on big distributed teams, writing tons of nontrivial SQL-queries and implementing tons of complex and tricky business logic on the database side. And he also worked as a “classical” Java developer and architect, where people interacted with any databases through ORM’s.

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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 Farina is a Distinguished Engineer, driving development of new open source solutions and supporting open source software leveraged by SUSE. Matt is a software engineer and architect primarily focused on cloud applications, web applications, and services. He is also and author and speaker.

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Matt is currently working as the Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS) for Percona, a leader in open source database software and services. He has over 15 years of experience in the open source industry including over 10 years of executive-level experience leading open source teams. Matt’s experience merges the technical and business aspects of the open source database experience with both a passion for hands on development and management and the leadership of building strong teams. During his time he has created or managed business units responsible for service delivery ( consulting, support, and managed services ), customer success, product management, marketing, and operations. He currently leads efforts around Percona’s OSPO, community, and developer relations efforts. He hosts the HOSS talks FOSS podcast, writes regularly, and shares his MySQL and PostgreSQL knowledge as often as possible.

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MySQL Expert

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Matthew is an experienced Data Engineer having worked on several Big Data applications within various domains, including Gaming and FinTech. Being an AWS certified solutions architect, he is naturally highly comfortable working with AWS solutions, as well as Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and the Hadoop Ecosystem amongst other technologies.

Matthew is most skilled in Java Spring, Scala and Python. Moreover, Matthew is currently reading a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence (FinTech) and is graduated with B. Sc. IT (Computing and Business) (Finance) with a First Class Honours Degree. As an Enterprise Data Architect at Gaming Innovation Group, Matthew is currently responsible for data governance, overseeing best practices, and maintaining the architecture up to standards.

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Matthias Crauwels is Experienced Database Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong information technology professional skilled in MySQL, PHP, Go and several scripting languages. He brought a talk about “MySQL Backup Solutions in 2021” during the Percona Live 2021.

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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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I am Meet Patel, 2nd year undergraduate at DAIICT, Gandhinagar, India; pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Information and Communication Technology with a minor in Computational Science. I am an open open source enthusiast and who is always eager to learn about experimenting with new tools and technologies!

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Michael is a freelance database consultant, back-end data engineer and founder of technical writing firm @BytesDaten. He is based in Accra, Ghana and has worked with startups in the eCommerce and healthcare industry. His tech stack includes but not limited to Kafka, Hadoop, Storm, Python, Rails, Cassandra, Postgres, Elastic Search, Redis and Zookeeper. Follow him on twitter @kwaku_mikey

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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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Michel has been working in data engineering for the past 15 years. As head of integrations and engineering director at Liveramp (NYSE: RAMP), he grew the team responsible for building and scaling the data ingestion and data distribution connectors, syncing 100s TB every day.

In 2020, he co-founded Airbyte, the new open-source data integration platform, with the vision to commoditize data integration pipelines across all industries and organizations.

After just ve months, Airbyte raised $5.2M from Accel, YCombinator, 8VC, and some high-prole business angels, including the co-founder of Segment, the former GM Cloudera, and the co-founder of Liveramp and Safegraph.

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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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With 15 years of IT industry experience, he is deeply knowledgeable and passionate about data stores, storage, and distributed systems.

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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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Architect of the S3 compatible object storage by Mail.ru Cloud Solutions. Technical product manager at Tarantool. 20+ years of experience in programming, 8+ years in high-performance applications based on Tarantool.

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I joined MySQL AB in January 2006, working remotely from my home in Brisbane, Australia.

I used the opportunity of working remotely to relocate to Canada. In 2008, after Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL, I joined Percona. I later rejoined the MySQL team under Oracle and worked as Product Manager for the MySQL Server until 2017.

I live in the Canadian Rockies with my wife, kids, and dog. I’m a fulltime employee of PingCAP, where we are building a horizontally scalable NewSQL database that speaks the MySQL protocol.

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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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Nagavamsi Ponnekanti is Software Engineer at Quora. Vamsi has more than 20 years experience with databases

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Software Engineer at Percona

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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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Tarantool Solution Engineer. Last several years I develop high-performance applications based on Tarantool. Developer of Tarantool Data Grid - the platform for developing distributed applications with a fast persistent in-memory storage. Also, I participate in developing of some Tarantool open source projects.

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Aleks works at Pinterest on automating its MySQL fleet operation. Before, he worked for Box, Dropbox, and Percona. He believes in Infrastructure as a Code principle and CI/CD with a goal to exterminate toil.

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Agile Facilitator, PMM

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Engineering leader with 15 years of experience in database infrastructure and site reliability engineering. Currently building the core storage platform and leading production engineering for storage at Uber.

Ovais is a Sr. Manager in the Core Storage team at Uber. He leads the Operational Storage Platform group with a focus on providing a world-class platform that powers all the critical business functions and lines of business at Uber. The platform serves tens of millions of QPS with an availability of 99.99% or more and stores tens of Petabytes of operational data.

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Øystein Grøvlen is a Senior Staff Engineer in Alibaba Cloud, where he works in the Database Products Group. Before joining Alibaba, Øystein worked for 10 years in the MySQL optimizer team at Sun/Oracle. At Sun Microsystems, he was also a contributor on the Apache Derby project and Sun’s Architectural Lead on Java DB. Prior to that, he worked for 10 years on development of Clustra, a highly available DBMS. Øystein has been talking about the MySQL Optimizer at several conferences over the years. Dr. Grøvlen has a PhD in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Øystein is a native Norwegian, and after spending last year in Hangzhou, China, he now lives in Sunnyvale, California.

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Pandit Prasad is a Principal Product Manager at Amazon RDS. He brings with him 28 years of Hi-Tech industry experience.

Prior to this role, he led the product management for IBM’s Db2, Big Data and Cloud portfolio of products (Monitoring, Automation and IT Analytics). Prior to that he led the global product marketing team at IBM. Earlier, as an IT Architect working for PwC and other consulting companies, he implemented ERP, CRM and Data warehouse applications for Large Enterprise including several Fortune100 companies.

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Patrick McFadin is one of the leading experts of Apache Cassandra and data modeling techniques. As the Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, he has helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons and an Oracle DBA/Developer for over 15 years.

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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 two 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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Phil is a full stack web developer with experience in a variety of languages and technologies. He is currently the lead developer for an IoT company involved with the remote monitoring of generators and other devices.

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PingCAP is building an open source distributed NewSQL hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) database. Its flagship open source database project, TiDB, is a cloud-native distributed SQL layer with MySQL compatibility. TiDB’s sister project, TiKV, is a cloud-native distributed Key-Value store and also growing rapidly.

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Frontend Web Automation Quality Assurance at Percona

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A “Big Data Geek-ette,” No stranger to the world of high-performance databases and data warehouses, Rachel has more than 20 years of business intelligence and data engineering experience, and is a Cassandra, Vertica, Informix and Redbrick certified DBA on top of her work with Druid. Rachel has an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in Mathematics from University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Senior Product Manager at Percona

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Raghavendra works as a Senior Software Engineer in the Database Reliability Engineering team at Yelp’s London office, dealing with datastores such as Cassandra and MySQL. Prior to that, he worked at Percona as the Product Lead of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) and at Yahoo as a Systems Engineer. His main interests include distributed systems, databases, operating systems, and virtualization. He blogs at http://blog.rdprabhu.com/ and tweets @randomsurfer.

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C++ Software Engineer in Percona

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Technical Writer, PMM

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Chief Consultant at PassionBytes providing big data consultancy and services in United States and an early adopter of Presto since it has been open sourced by Facebook. Ravi’s passion is to combine/merge various systems/components into a more reusable and innovative platform, reducing proliferation of tools and manual interventions allowing straight through processing of data and expose it for AI/ML applications. Ravi has 25 years of experience as Developer, Senior Architect, Project Manager, Senior Vice President and CTO. Knowledge and implementation experience in data technologies, especially big data and related ecosystem components with proven leadership in building teams from ground up and emphasize architectural and design principles to deliver world class products are the key differentiators. He is a well-known speaker and a public author.

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Renato Losio is a software and cloud architect, a digital nomad and an accidental speaker. He has many years of experience as a software engineer, tech lead and cloud services specialist in Italy, UK, Portugal and Germany. He currently lives in Berlin and works remotely as principal cloud architect for Funambol inc. Location-based services and relational databases are his main working interests. A certified AWS professional, he holds an MSc degree in Physics and an MSc in Computing Science.

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René founded ProxySQL in 2016 after developing it since 2013. He has over 15 years of experience as Database Administrator mostly on MySQL, working as Senior MySQL Support Engineer at Sun/Oracle, Senior Operational DBA at Blackbird, and consulting for small and large companies like Dropbox. In this period he build an analytic and problem-solving mindset, he is always eager to take on new challenges, especially if they are related to high performance.

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Open Source Contributor

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Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find recent talks and musings on https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.

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Robert started working for the MariaDB Foundation in 2018 as a server developer. His main focus is divided between server development and helping the community contribute faster and more efficiently to the MariaDB codebase. Robert is based mostly in Brasov, Romania.

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Database Engineer

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Robert Hodges has worked on database systems since 1983. During that he has loved, worked on, and occasionally despised 20 dierent DBMS types. His technical interests include data, distributed systems, virtualization technology, and security. He is currently CEO of Altinity, which supports and runs ClickHouse for enterprises.

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Robert Reeves is currently CTO at Liquibase

Robert leads Liquibase’s technology strategy. His is as passionate about supporting everyone he can with Liquibase as he is about punk rock and comic books. Prior to co-founding Liquibase, he was a Director at the Austin Technology Incubator and co-founded Phurnace Software, inventing their flagship product for middleware and infrastructure management. A US Army veteran, Robert holds an Economics degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS degree in Science and Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business.

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Founder & CEO at Releem Inc., Software Engineer, MySQL & MariaDB Consultant, Entrepreneur passionate about database performance and automation.

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Roman Proskin, senior developer at Mail.ru Group. For the last few years I am working on Tarantool — an in-memory computing platform. I have developed and deployed to production several projects focused on high availability and performance. My current project involves a major commercial bank, where I manage everything from monitoring and logging to CI/CD.

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Liquibase Developer Advocate. Background in DevOps, Customer Success, and Solution Architecture. Current project: Supporting and organizing the Liquibase community answering questions. Follow Ronak on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Sai Kondapalli is a Database Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services specializing on MySQL services and assists customers to migrate and optimize their workloads on RDS MySQL, MariaDB and Aurora MySQL.

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CEO of PlanetScale, with a career dedicated to leading engineering teams and building developer‑focused products that scale. At PlanetScale, he has championed the vision of combining the reliability of MySQL with the flexibility of cloud‑native infrastructure, making databases easier to use and more powerful for developers. His background in open‑source communities and leadership in shaping DBaaS platforms bring a unique perspective to the summit.

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Database Engineer

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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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Googld Cloud Architect with experience of working with bigdata complex, distributed applications based. Experience in designing and implementing solutions. Also certified GCP Cloud Architect, Java Developer and Web Components Developer.

Good understanding of the software development lifecycle (Jenkins CI), experience in establishing the development and release process (Maven, Git, Nexus) and system automation (Chef). Awesome experience with metrics collection and automated service monitoring using statsd, grfanana and Syren.

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Engineer and database geek, works at PlanetScale as a maintainer for open source Vitess. Previously at GitHub. Interested in database infrastructure solutions such as high availability, reliability, enablement, automation and testing. Shlomi is an active MySQL community member, authors orchestrator, gh-ost, common_schema and other open source tools, and blogs at http://openark.org. He is the recipient of MySQL Community Member of the Year, Oracle ACE (Alumni) & Oracle Technologist of the Year awards.

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Engineer and database geek, working at PlanetScale on both open source Vitess as well as PlanetScaleDB. Interested in database infrastructure solutions such as high availability, reliability, enablement, automation and testing. Shlomi is an active MySQL community member, authors orchestrator, gh-ost, common_schema and other open source tools, and blogs at http://openark.org. He is the recipient of MySQL Community Member of the Year, Oracle ACE (Alumni) & Oracle Technologist of the Year awards.

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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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I’m a Senior Data Scientist that’s on a mission to enable more people to work with data effectively. I spent 5 years building an online learning platform specifically to help people learn existing data tools before turning my attention to improving the data tools themselves. I now am a Developer Advocate at Preset.io, the main company driving and helping grow the Apache Superset project.

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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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MySQL Senior DBA with a passion for optimizing and managing complex database environments. When I’m not working with MySQL, you’ll likely find me at the beach, coaching or watching football. I also enjoy fine dining and a good glass of wine to unwind in the evenings.

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Stephen has had a career in technology for online and retail gambling, having worked close to business for a number of B2C and B2B providers. Sound background in technology, delivering affiliate and gambling platforms using both .NET and Java frameworks.

For the past 8 years Stephen has grown fond of Big Data and has led several high production transaction data lake projects both for on premise and on the cloud architectures. Stephen currently works for Gaming Innovation Group.

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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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Sugu is the co-creator of Vitess, and has been working on it since 2010. Prior to Vitess, Sugu worked on scalability at YouTube and was also part of PayPal in the early days. His recent interest is in distributed systems and consensus algorithms. He occasionally shares his thoughts on his blog ssougou.blogspot.com.

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Sunny Bains has been working on database internals since 2001. Before joining PingCAP in 2022 he was a Senior Director of Software Development at Oracle where led the MySQL/InnoDB team. He fixed the performance bottlenecks that made InnoDB scale to where it is today. He is also the main author of the Full Text Search in InnoDB, B+Tree parallel read, DDL and more things that he can remember. Before joining Oracle in 2006 he implemented a database storage engine from scratch for a distributed database product at CTI Pty. Ltd. The networked database was used in a mission critical environment in the airline industry with very strict service level guarantees.

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Surendar Munimohan is a Senior Database Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He works with customer to provide guidance and technical assistance on database projects. He holds Masters of Information Technology from Central Queensland University, Australia.

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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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Teslim Balogun is a frontend developer, technical writer, and a big fan of Open Source.

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Thodoris Bais works as a Scrum Master for ABN Amro bank and contributes to the prosperity of the IT community in several ways. He is the Founder & Leader of Utrecht Java User Group, which counts around 2500 members and has hosted exceptional speakers (among others, James Gosling and Uncle Bob). Besides, he helps new communities making their first steps. Thodoris serves the Expert Group of JSR-385 and helps developers to grow their career.

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Tiago is a software engineering manager for MySQL NDB Cluster. Tiago is passionate about software engineering with focus on software quality.

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Tiago is a Senior Software Developer at Oracle and Technical Lead for Group Communication System in Group Replication.

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Tim is a Software Engineer at Facebook working on Presto and is also a Presto Foundation Technical Steering Committee member and Committer. His interests are in Presto reliability and scalability.

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For the last 10 years, Timur has worked in various telco companies. He has hands-on experience in databases, system and network engineering. Currently Timur works as a Senior DBA for Five9, Inc., the leading provider of cloud contact center software. He lives in California, US with wife and daughter.

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Tom Basil is Chief of Staff at Percona.

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Product Manager

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Tyler is an engineer on the player accounts team at Riot Games. The Player Accounts team is responsible for every player’s ability to log in and manage account data. In 2018, we re-architected our systems to become GDPR compliant, provide a better player experience, and enable Riot to become a multi-game company in the future.

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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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Vaibhav Upadhyay is a Lead Database Administrator at ROKA I am working with Techmojo solutions as a lead for production Support & DBA Like to play sports particularly Snooker and Cricket I enjoy working in operations environment/domain and as part of It like to work on performance and scaling issues

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Vaidyanathan is an Engineering Manager at India’s largest e-commerce company, Flipkart. He has close to 13 years of experience working across multiple startups and larger companies like Yahoo. He has built and architected the central managed platform for MySQL in Flipkart and is currently managing three critical PaaS services - Managed Distributed SQL, Managed SQL and Managed Backup & Restore products in Flipkart. In his career of 7.5 years in Flipkart, he was instrumental in recognising the various problems of independently managed MySQL clusters and solving it for Flipkart at scale.

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MySQL DBA at Virtual Expo in France.

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Valerii Kravchuk helps MySQL and MariaDB users and DBAs to resolve their problems since 2005. Worked in MySQL AB, Sun, Oracle, Percona and, since 2016, in MariaDB Corporation. MySQL Community Contributor of the year 2019.

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Valeriy Kravchuk has supported MySQL users since 2005, in MySQL AB, Sun, Oracle, Percona and (since 2016) MariaDB Corporation.

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Vicentiu works at the MariaDB Foundation as a Software Engineer and Team Lead. He focuses on optimizer development, but has also worked on other parts of the MariaDB Server. Vicențiu has been part of the MariaDB ecosystem since 2013, where he first contributed Roles to MariaDB. Over the years, Vicențiu has coded numerous features and helped with the packaging of MariaDB for various distributions. Recently, Vicențiu has also been involved in the QA process of MariaDB, by contributing to https://buildbot.mariadb.org as well as mariadb.org/download infrastructure

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Vijay Karumajj is a Senior Database Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He has worked as a SQL Server DBA at Blue Cross Blue Shield, Verizon, and Southwest Airlines. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Andhra University and a Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wolverhampton.

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Vinicius Grippa is a Senior Support Engineer at Percona. Vinicius joined Percona Support Engineer team in 2017. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a passion for technology and more than 13 years experiences in databases systems. He has experience in designing databases for critical applications and, in the last few years, has become a specialist in MySQL and MongoDB ecosystems. He has helped Percona customers with hundreds of different cases featuring a vast range of scenarios and complexities. Vinicius is also active in the OS community, participating in virtual rooms like Slack, speaking at meetups, and presenting conferences 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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Team lead and developer working on investment banking solutions. Over four years of experience in Alfa-bank, the largest commercial bank in Russia. The current project is a new distributed core system for the corporate investment bank based on the Tarantool in-memory database and application server.

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Walter has worked as a DBA since 2010 in few companies like social gaming company in Latin America and other company in Spain. He lives in Mendoza, Argentina, He likes play football and he is learning to play guitar in his free time.

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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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Werner Keil is a Cloud Architect, Eclipse RCP and Microservice expert for a large bank. Helping Global 500 Enterprises across industries and leading IT vendors. He worked for over 30 years as IT Manager, PM, Coach, SW architect and consultant for Finance, Mobile, Media, Transport and Public sector. Werner develops enterprise systems using Java, Java/Jakarta EE, Oracle, IBM, Spring or Microsoft technologies, JavaScript, Node, Angular, dynamic or functional languages. Werner is Committer at Apache Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Babel Language Champion, UOMo Project Lead and active member of the Java Community Process.

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Wey is a software engineer living in Shanghai, China. He enjoys building things with magic and scaling the magic to the wizard community in the day time and sings sometime at night.

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Yahav Biran is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, focused on game tech at scale. Yahav enjoys contributing to open-source projects and publishes in the AWS blog and academic journals. He currently contributes to the K8s Helm community, Percona Live, AWS databases and compute blogs, and Journal of Systems Engineering. He delivers technical presentations at technology events and works with customers to design their applications in the cloud. He received his PhD (Systems Engineering) from Colorado State University.

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Yahav is a Senior Solutions Architect in Amazon Web Services Game-Tech. Dr. Biran designs reliable, resilient, and secured cloud-based information systems for AWS Cloud customers. He received his Ph.D. (Systems Engineering) from Colorado State University in 2017. He was previously a Technical Program Manager at Microsoft Azure; there he built Azure Compute Services. He has more than fifteen years of professional experience in information systems. His research seeks an objective and overall higher fidelity approach to optimize large scale game-tech scenarios.

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Yang Keao is a developer at PingCAP and a maintainer of Chaos Mesh, a cloud native chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes. He also helps the database developers and QA team to promote the stability of TiDB, which is a distributed database developed by PingCAP.

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Tarantool Solution Engineer and Software Developer. I have used Lua since 2007. For the last three years this has been my primary programming language professionally. I used it for video streaming business logic and now within Tarantool to develop an in-memory database and a Lua application server.

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Yoav is Senior Product Manager for Amazon Relational Database Service and Amazon Aurora. He joined AWS in 2016 after holding product roles for several years at Oracle and other technology companies. At AWS, he managed the launches of Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora Serverless, Aurora Global Database, and other major features. Yoav currently focuses on new capabilities for the MySQL and PostgreSQL database engines.

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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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Yury Selivanov is Co-founder and CEO at EdgeDB. Bringing state-of-the-art database technology to the masses. EdgeDB is an open-source object-relational database built on top of PostgreSQL. The goal of EdgeDB is to empower its users to build safe and efficient software with less effort.

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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.

achilleas_mantzios

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agustin_gallego

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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.

alawi_assaggaf

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MySQL DBA with 10 years experience in the industry.

alvaro_hernandez

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Alvaro Hernandez is a passionate database and software developer. After several unsuccessful ventures, Alvaro founded and work as the CEO of OnGres, a PostGres startup set to disrupt the database market. He has been dedicated to PostgreSQL and R&D in databases since two decades ago. Alvaro is an open source advocate and developer and a well-known member of the PostgreSQL Community.

ananias_tsalouchidis

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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.

Andreas Scherbaum

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Andreas Scherbaum is working with PostgreSQL since 1997. He is involved in several PostgreSQL related community projects, member of the Board of Directors of the European PostgreSQL User Group and also wrote a PostgreSQL book (in German). Since 2011 he was working for EMC/Greenplum/Pivotal and tackled very big databases. Nowadays he does the same - but with maybe even more and bigger databases - for Adjust GmbH in Berlin.

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, …).

ege_gunes

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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.

elisa_usai

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emily_omier

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Emily Omier is specializing in helping startups in the cloud native ecosystem and/or built around an open source project create the right set of assumptions so that prospects and customers understand the product’s value immediately. Do you have a sinking feeling that prospects don’t understand your product? If your prospects consistently compare you with the wrong alternatives, overlook your awesome features and can’t figure out how your thing would fit into their workflow and their tech stack, you might have a positioning problem.

Eno Compton

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Eno is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google working on Cloud SQL. He is one of the maintainers of the Cloud SQL Auth proxy. He is also a total language nerd with a Ph.D. in Classical Chinese and Japanese and a decade of experience in nearly a dozen computer languages. Nowadays he works exclusively in Go and loves network programming, delightful APIs, and deleting code in pursuit of simplicity.

Eno Compton

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Shachar is a product manager at Google Cloud, he works on the Cloud Database Migration Service. Shachar worked in various product and engineering roles and shares a true passion about data and helping customers get the most out of their data. Shachar was formerly a product manager for Alooma who got acquired by Google in 2019. He is passionate about building products that make cumbersome processes simple and straightforward and helping companies adopt Cloud technologies to accelerate their business.

farokh_shahabi

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Co-founder & CEO of Formaloo

federico_razzoli

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Relational databases lover and open source supporter. I wrote “Mastering MariaDB” in 2014, and I was a MariaDB Community Ambassador. I am an independent consultant based in London

Passionate with databases, automation and open source. Federico was active in MariaDB and MySQL communities for years. He started Vettabase, a database automation and consulting company.

fernando_laudares_camargos

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

ian_gilfillan

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ian first came across MySQL in the 90s, upgrading from mSQL while developing South Africas’ first online grocery store, and teaching and developing internet programming courses. He was lead developer for South Africa’s largest media company from 2000, and wrote the book Mastering MySQL 4 in 2002. He wrote regular columns on MySQL and web programming in the 2000s, before founding and developing an online organic food co-operative in 2005.

Jan Kleinert

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jan Kleinert leads a team of Developer Advocates as part of Google Cloud, focusing on Compute and Databases. Prior to joining Google, she worked in a variety of roles ranging from developer relations to web analytics and conversion optimization.

Javier Borkenztain

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Javier Jaramago Fernández

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Systems engineer, OpenSource contributor, currently at ProxySQL. Interested in systems programming, databases, distributed and critical systems.

Jono Bacon

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jono is the author of ‘People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams’, and ‘The Art of Community’. Jono has also written on community for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and elsewhere. Listen into this dive into building and managing communities.

Joshua Drake

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

President of Command Prompt, Inc., the oldest Postgres Company. We specialize in Full Stack Postgres Support and consulting including Oracle to Postgres Migrations. I am also Co-Chair of Postgres Conference (PostgresConf), the largest non-profit Postgres Community and Ecosystem conference. Connect with us to find out how we can help your business either with Oracle Migrations, 24x7 Postgres Support, Professional Services or build a relationship around your company success with PostgresConf.

Kimberly Wilkins

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

roberto_garcia_de_bem

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

sergio_ostapowicz

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000