DuckDB × MySQL Day 2026

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.

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

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.