Jacques Grove
Infrastructure Engineering at (various)
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacques Grove is an infrastructure engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and platform systems, currently working on infra at Databricks. He has led global infrastructure teams at Google Cloud and built core production and payments platforms at Clover, scaling systems to billions in transactions and hundreds of thousands of merchants. As VP at PlanetScale he established customer engineering and professional services around Vitess, and he’s an active contributor to the vitess project—improving replication, auth, and proxy support for MySQL clustering. Jacques advises and invests in startups across infrastructure, security and fintech, and previously led mission-critical operations at TripIt and early cloud provider Loudcloud. His background combines hands-on engineering, enterprise sales/ops alignment, and a knack for hardening distributed databases for production at extreme scale.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B. Com. Hons (summa cum laude) Computer Science, B. Com. Hons (summa cum laude) Computer Science at Stellenbosch University
Github Skills (11)
databases10
go10
database-administration10
sql10
relational-databases10
mysql10
sql-database10
database10
replication9
security8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Sep 2019 - May 2022
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:50 reviews, 227 commits, 116 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacques primarily contributed to the back-end logic and database aspects of the Vitess project, making improvements to various aspects of the system. Their contributions include clarifying error messages, resolving race conditions in fake SQL database instances, and enhancing error logging in replication flows. Furthermore, the user added support for proxy protocol to vtgate and implemented authentication for Azure MySQL, indicating experience with database connectivity and security. They also addressed issues related to MySQL's internal workings and performance.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
aquarapid/go-mydumper
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
A multi-threaded MySQL backup and restore tool, faster than mysqldump
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 year 3 months
mysqlrestorefastermulti-threadedfaster-than
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