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Awards & Recognition
★Nominated for Oracle's 2019 MySQL Community Contributor Award
★Co-creator of Vitess - graduated CNCF project (2019)
★Recognition as maintainer of graduated CNCF project
Notable Facts
→Co-creator of Vitess, a CNCF graduated project that powers YouTube's database infrastructure
→Previously worked at YouTube (2006-2018) solving massive database scaling challenges
→Early PayPal engineer, hired by Elon Musk at X.com after initially being rejected
→Currently Head of Multigres at Supabase (moved from PlanetScale CTO role)
→Has 30+ years of database experience starting at Informix in 1993
→Regular conference speaker at KubeCon, technical meetups, and industry events
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