I've been technically leading, mentoring, and managing a team, helping companies and people with current and future needs, starting from SW engineering to everything database, currently focused around MySQL. I work for Pythian doing what I love, in a challenging environment. I'm passionate about leadership, mentoring, and data.

Presentations

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CattleSpa: automated healing of your cloud infrastructure

A behind-the-scenes look at how our small systems engineering team manages our infrastructure. This is centered around MySQL and MongoDB.

We'll go through real-world implementation with code examples, showing how we:

  • Built a flexible automation framework that adapts to new technologies
  • Created a sustainable way for a small team to manage enterprise-scale infrastructure
  • Turned "those #@$% servers" into well-behaved, predictable systems
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19x

MySQL Backup Solutions in 2022

Backups are important! Everyone makes mistakes, bugs are easily overlooked, hardware will fail eventually. If you don't want to lose data when disaster strikes, your backups will be your savior. In this talk I will guide you through some of the most common backup techniques for #MySQL that we use in 2022.

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