Peter Zaitsev:

Now I work as Independent MySQL Consultant specializing in MySQL Performance

Previously I was employed as Manager of High Performace Group at MySQL Inc,

I specialise MySQL Server performance as well as in performance of application stacks using MySQL, especially LAMP. Web sites handling millions of visitors a day dealing with terabytes of data and hundreds of servers is king of applications I love the most.
As part of my work at MySQL I’m working on performance analyses of MySQL Server, our groups looks for bottlenecks and helps Development team to fix them. We also work with MySQL partners helping them to ensuree MySQL performs best with Hardware or Software solution.

We’re also involved in MySQL Support activities - if there is complex MySQL Performance related support case, it will likely land on our plate.

I’m also doing MySQL Performance consulting engagements. During last few years I’ve been to many big web shops and enterprises as well as worked remotely with about same number.

I also enjoy speaking on the conferences. You will find slides for most of my talks on this site.

You can learn more about Peter Zaitsev on our company team page.

Vadim Tkachenko:
I partner with Peter on our MySQL Consulting Practice

Before that I was employed by MySQL Inc as Performance Engineer, working in Peters group working on MySQL Performance and Scalability issues. My primary tasks were benchmarks, profiling, finding bottlenecks. I’m an expert in multi threading programming and synchronization stuff.

While working for MySQL I took part in many performance optimization projects, including DVD Store Benchmark for CT competition, where I’ve implemented most of optimizations under Peter’s guidance.

I also worked on number features for MySQL Performance monitoring and tuning - SHOW MUTEX STATUS, Tuning Innodb mutexes and concurrency control, MMAP IO for MyISAM tables, Innodb Auto-increment optimizations.

My recent work in my spare time was finding a way to get Innodb to scale with multiple CPUs and I have a prototype patch which seems to help a lot on certain workloads.

Before MySQL I used to develop web-applications, so LAMP is my native area. Currently I support my two open source projects: PHPExcelReader, php class for reading/writing excel documents and PefrProf, performance profiler, which I use as replacement of gprof and oprofile.

To learn more about Vadim Tkachenko please visit our company team page.

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