Peter Zaitsev
Founder, CEO
Peter is arguably the world’s foremost expert in MySQL performance and scaling, with a special expertise in hardware and database internals. A native of Moscow, Peter first became a MySQL user in 1998 and quickly became both a technologist and manager in some of Russia’s early large MySQL installations. Peter was personally recruited in 2002 by MySQL’s founder to manage the High Performance Group within the MySQL Support Team until 2006, when he left to found Percona. Peter has guided Percona from a two-person, bootstrapped startup to a worldwide organization with an international reputation for high quality MySQL software and services.
Peter’s work has contributed to dozens of MySQL appliances, storage engines, replication systems, and other technologies. He has advised some of the world’s largest MySQL users — including many Fortune 500 firms and household name web sites — on MySQL best practices, especially performance scaling and optimization. Peter co-authored High Performance MySQL along with two other Percona experts. He is a frequently invited guest at open source conferences, and has been a sell-out speaker at the yearly MySQL User Conference since its inception. Peter currently lives in North Carolina with his wife and their two children. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Moscow State University.
Peter welcomes emails directly from Percona customers and users to ceo@percona.com.
Empowering the MySQL World
The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is the premier event for the rich and diverse MySQL ecosystem. It is the place to be for the open source community as well as businesses that thrive in the MySQL marketplace. Attendees include DBAs, SysAdmins, developers, architects, CTOs, CEOs, and vendors from around the world.
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database, powering massively popular web applications such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. MySQL continues to evolve rapidly with new releases, related software, delivery methods, and uses enabling it to reach more markets and power more applications every day.
The Percona Live MySQL Conference will be April 1-4 at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara Convention Center.