Alkin Tezuysal

Sr. Technical Manager, PlanetScale

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.

Open source database evangelist
Global database operations expert
Storyteller
Inspiring technical and strategic leader
Creative team builder
Speaker, mentor, and coach
Born to sail, forced to work

Dave Stokes talks open - Stoking the flames of open source - Episode 1 - Percona Live 2022

Listen to the interviews from PerconaLive 2022. David Stokes invited amazing guests to talk to him about open source technologies.

All Things Vitess, Planetscale, MySQL, and Sailing Passion - Percona Podcast 10

March 2, 2021 by Alkin Tezuysal, Matt Yonkovit

Matt Yonkovit talks to Planetscale’s SR Technical Manager Alkin Tezuysal on his role as a Vitess maintainer, who is using & contributing to Vitess, and where does it make sense for companies.