Dennis Kittrell

Dennis Kittrell is leading product and engineering for Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, and Percona XtraBackup. An innovator and problem solver with more than 20 years of product leadership across internet infrastructure, cloud, and information security, including roles at CloudLinux, ZeroTier, and Mattermost, he now leads Percona's work to do more than build AI into MySQL, readying MySQL and its community for the AI era with open source vector capabilities, skills, MCP servers, and tooling that benefit everyone who depends on the database.