Matthias Crauwels
Enterprise Customer Engineer at PlanetScale
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolMatthias Crauwels is an Enterprise Customer Engineer at PlanetScale with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, migrating and optimizing MySQL-based systems for large customers. He combines deep operational expertise in zero-downtime migrations, sharding, backups and HA with a background as a Principal Consultant and team lead at Pythian, where he provided technical escalation and strategic guidance for open-source database deployments. Based in Ghent, he blends software development and DevOps experience from a decade at Ghent University with cloud architecture skills to help enterprises adopt distributed SQL (Vitess) and multi-cloud strategies. Known for translating complex database challenges into practical, scalable solutions, he also mentors teams and contributes technical thought leadership around MySQL ecosystems and cloud-native databases.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
None, Informatica, None, Informatica at University of AntwerpBachelor, Toegepaste Informatica, Bachelor, Toegepaste Informatica at Karel de Grote-HogeschoolBachelor of Sience, Informatica, Bachelor of Sience, Informatica at Ghent UniversityEconomics - Mathematics, Economics - Mathematics at Sint-Ursula-Instituut
English, Dutch
Github Skills (57)
kubernetes10
horizontal-scaling10
mysql10
puppet10
high-availability10
proxy10
planetscale10
exporter10
mysql-replication10
php10
mysql-client10
vitess10
database-cluster10
rule10
replication10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mcrauwel/go-check-orchestrator
Jul 2017 - Sep 2022
Nagios check for Orchestrator
Contributions:5 releases, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 2 months
nagios
mcrauwel/maia_mailguard
Feb 2017 - Mar 2021
A fork of maia Mailguard
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
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