Matt Yonkovit (a.k.a “Big DBA Head”) is the co-founder of the Waffle Grid Project.

Matt has been working with relational databases since the mid 1990's as a DBA, System Administrator, and all around techie. Before joining Percona, Matt worked at MySQL and Sun Microsystems as a Solution Architect helping to build architectures for Fortune 500 and Top Alexa rated companies. In his career, Matt has served as a DBA designing and supporting massive database deployments run on MySQL, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Postgres, and the AS/400.

Matt has a passion for performance and spends lots of his free time performing benchmarks, finding outside the box solutions for today's performance challenges, and just trying to make things go faster.