Jonah Berquist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJonah Berquist is a senior engineering manager specializing in database and persistence infrastructure, currently leading Persistence Infrastructure at Discord from San Francisco. He brings 11 years of deep MySQL and distributed database experience gained in hands-on roles at Twitter and GitHub and in developer-facing leadership positions at PlanetScale. Jonah has a strong track record of building reliable, scalable storage systems and turning operational expertise into products and solutions that serve large-scale engineering teams. Unusually, he combines front-line DBA rigor with customer-facing technical leadership—a pattern reflected in multiple senior stints at PlanetScale—and even signals a playful open-source persona with his (⌐■_■) GitHub bio.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (29)
database-access10
mysql10
mariadb10
migration10
schema-migrations10
migration-tool10
topology9
mysql-replication9
replication8
high-availability7
cdc7
failover7
multi-server4
change-data-capture4
lts3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jonahberquist/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
planetscale/ps-prechecks
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
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