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All along 2021, Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy, sat down with CEO, CTO, evangelist, authors, and engineers from around the community space and talked about all things open-source, contribution to the community, databases features, trends, and more
Matt Yonkovit was Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS) at Percona. He has over 15 years in open source, including more than 10 years leading teams. That mix covers both the technical and business side of open source databases: hands-on work, management, and building teams. At Percona he ran or helped run service delivery (consulting, support, managed services), customer success, product management, marketing, and operations, and later OSPO, community, and developer relations. He hosted the HOSS talks FOSS podcast and writes about MySQL and PostgreSQL.
NDC London 2027 takes place 2027-01-25 – 2027-01-29 in London.
January 25, 2027
Percona is a Bronze sponsor at AWS re:Invent, November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. We’ll be on the Expo floor with the cloud community — talking open source databases, performance tuning, and data infrastructure that holds up in AWS production environments.
November 30-December 4, 2026
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 takes place 2026-11-30 – 2026-12-04 in Munich.
November 30, 2026
