Alkin Tezuysal
Director Of Services at Altinity, Inc.
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlkin Tezuysal is a globally recognized open-source database leader with over three decades of experience designing, operating, and scaling database systems. He combines hands-on release management—most notably for the Vitess MySQL clustering project—with strategic leadership in cloud infrastructure and high-performance database operations. Author of MySQL Cookbook (4th ed., 2022) and forthcoming Database Design and Modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL (2024), he blends practical engineering with clear, teachable guidance. Honored as Most Influential in the Database Community (Redgate 100, 2022) and named a MySQL Rockstar (2023), he mentors and advises teams to adopt modern, open-source-first approaches. Based in Istanbul, he pairs formal training in data management with a long history in computer programming and electronics, giving him a systems-level perspective rarely found in database practitioners. He is known for making complex release and scaling challenges predictable and repeatable, turning infrastructure pain points into reliable delivery.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Electronics, High School Electronics at Haydarpasa Vocational High School (Electronics)Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology Data Management, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology Data Management at Colorado Technical UniversityAssociate's degree Computer Programming Computer Programming, Associate's degree Computer Programming Computer Programming at Marmara University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (13)
release-management10
databases10
go10
relational-databases10
mysql10
sql-database10
database10
build-automation9
database-cluster9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
sha7
cnc7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Release Manager
Backend Developer & Release ManagerContributions:14 releases, 51 reviews, 136 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alkin's primary contributions center around releasing and maintaining the Vitess database clustering system. They updated version information, prepared release packages, and managed release-related commits. They also integrated merged pull requests into the release notes and made some code changes for release builds. This indicates their responsibility for ensuring the timely delivery and stability of the Vitess project.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
askdba/raspi-weather
Dec 2019 - Mar 2022
Raspberry Pi + DHT22 sensor + web frontend = nice graphs
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
raspberry-piraspberrygraphssensorfrontend
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