Peter Zaitsev is a world famous expert in MySQL performance optimization and scaling and one of the company’s founders.

Peter has helped many companies ranging from one man startups to Fortune 500 companies with their performance and scaling problems in various stages from architecture design to queries and schema optimization.

Over the course of the years Peter has spoken on many international conferences focused on MySQL, Open Source, databases or high performance web applications.

Before co-founding Percona Peter worked for MySQL AB as head of High Performance Group. He was involved in support, consulting, development and working with vendors helping to optimize their software or hardware to perform well with MySQL.

Peter was also involved in a number of web startups in the roles ranging from CTO to consultant and has a lot of experience in MySQL and web applications, operations, deployment, quality assurance and development.