Vadim Tkachenko is an expert in MySQL and LAMP performance optimization and co-founder of the company.

Vadim worked with many companies, some from the Top 1000 Alexa rating, managing highload issues on web application, particularly on database level.

Before co-founding Percona Vadim worked for MySQL AB as performance engineer. He was involved in support, development, and working with performance tasks, benchmarks, profiling, finding bottlenecks and development. Vadim is an expert in multi threading programming and synchronization problems.

Vadim was also the owner of a company that has developed a wide range of web-applications.