Percona University Uruguay 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.

Nikolay Sivko is CEO of Coroot, an open source observability project for detecting failures and performance issues.

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.

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.

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

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.