Michael Coburn
Principal Architect at Percona
Guanajuato, Mexico
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RockstarMichael Coburn is a Principal Architect at Percona with 12 years of experience designing and operationalizing database systems and observability tooling from Mexico. He has progressed through product, consulting, and technical account leadership roles at Percona, blending hands-on MySQL expertise with product and customer-facing strategy since 2012. Michael contributes to Percona's flagship open-source PMM project as a technical writer, improving deployment and configuration documentation to make complex database monitoring workflows accessible. His background spans systems administration, DBA work, and team leadership across high-traffic media and SaaS environments, giving him a pragmatic focus on reliability and maintainability. Colleagues rely on him to translate deep MySQL operational knowledge into clear runbooks and product guidance that reduce friction for engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Spanish
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
percona/pmm
Jun 2017 - May 2021
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on updating and enhancing the documentation within the PMM repository. Their contributions involved modifying documentation files related to the virtual appliance deployment, MySQL slow log rotation, and various options within the PMM Server configuration. They also updated the `get-pmm.sh` script. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the clarity, accuracy, and usability of the project's documentation for users.
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michaelcoburn/percona_mysql
Jun 2015 - Jul 2022
ansible role for Percona Server
Contributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 years 2 months
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