Jonah Berquist
Senior Engineering Manager, Persistence Infrastructure at Discord
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonah Berquist is a senior engineering manager based in San Francisco with 11 years building and leading database and persistence infrastructure teams at scale. He’s held progressive roles at GitHub and PlanetScale and now leads Persistence Infrastructure at Discord, blending deep MySQL expertise with hands-on operational and architectural leadership. Jonah’s background spans individual contributor MySQL DBA work to director-level technical solutions, giving him a rare combination of troubleshooting chops and customer-facing solution design. Known for pragmatic scaling strategies and mentoring engineers through complex distributed-data problems, he brings both product empathy and production-hardened rigor to platform initiatives. An approachable technologist with a subtle playful streak (as his GitHub bio hints), he thrives where high-availability systems and developer experience intersect.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The Evergreen State College
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
horizontal-scaling10
mysql10
schema-migrations10
vitess10
database-cluster10
clustering10
database10
mysql-replication9
replication8
high-availability8
multiserver5
scaling5
proxysql4
mysql-client3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jonahberquist/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 2 months
planetscale/ps-prechecks
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
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