Yura Sorokin

Yura is a Principal Software Engineer at Percona, mostly working on Percona Server Core. You might have heard of him as an author of "Compressed Columns with Dictionaries", "SEQUENCE_TABLE()" and "C++ UDF wrappers". Before joining in July 2015 he was leading a cloud file service backend dev team which was focusing on client-side encryption. He has 20+ years of software development experience, primarily in C++. Yura holds Master degree in Computer Science from National Technical University of Ukraine. He lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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