Making a career out of Open Source

Event Percona University Montevideo 2023

Location Montevideo, Uruguay

Dates Oct 24, 2023

Presentation Oct 20, 2023

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Speaker

Peter Zaitsev

Founder | Open-Source Advocate | Technologist | Boards Member, Advisor & Mentor

Co‑founder of Percona

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Abstract

Are you thinking about taking your Open Source passion and making it into a career? What options do you have and how can you approach them? In this talk, we will cover the main choices you have - getting hired by the company which contributes to the Open Source project you love, Being a freelancer/starting Open Source consulting business or turning Open Source project into Open Source product and building a product business.

Speaker Bios

Peter Zaitsev

Founder | Open-Source Advocate | Technologist | Boards Member, Advisor & Mentor

Co‑founder of Percona

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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