Valerie Parham-Thompson
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarValerie Parham-Thompson is an open-source database architect and solutions engineer who specializes in scaling and optimizing large, mission-critical database installations. Over nearly a decade she has guided customers through adopting and operating distributed, cloud-native database platforms in hands-on roles at Pythian, Yugabyte, and now PlanetScale. Valerie pairs deep technical expertise in distributed SQL and performance tuning with a business and finance background from UNC Kenan‑Flagler, enabling cost- and risk-aware architecture decisions that align with business outcomes. Based in Durham, NC, she bridges consulting and product worlds, turning operational complexity into reproducible, production-ready designs while contributing to the open-source database ecosystem.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,536reputation
264kreached
50answers
0questions
mysql
top-5%
cassandra
top-5%
Github Skills (94)
point-clouds10
annotations10
databases10
standardized10
datasets10
cloudfoundry10
boundingbox10
deep-learning10
label-studio10
cpp10
labeling10
bounding-box10
training-data10
languagetool10
sql10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dataindataout/pythonthehardway
Jun 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
dataindataout/yb_day2ops
Aug 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:62 PRs, 36 pushes, 60 branches in 2 months
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