Curious, Passionate, Problem Solver
I'm an extremely curious and self-driven problem solver. Specialties: Databases, UNIX/Linux, Distributed Systems Recent hacking: https://github.com/mattlord Writing: - https://planetscale.com/blog/zero-downtime-migrations-at-petabyte-scale - https://vitess.io/blog/ -...
2025 — Now
Working on Vitess and Neki: https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki
2022 — Now
Maintainer for the Vitess project: https://www.cncf.io/projects/vitess/
Project stats: https://t.ly/dBOrJ
2025 — 2025
https://www.istaridigital.com/
2021 — 2025
Tannersville, PA
Vitess maintainer: https://github.com/vitessio/vitess Focused on VReplication: https://vitess.io/docs/reference/vreplication/vreplication/
Supporting the PlanetScale SaaS through Vitess development and support.
2020 — 2021
Building the next generation of MySQL management and operations with Vitess on GCP.
Moving other storage related services to a GitOps workflow using Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, and Google Cloud Build.
