Peter Sylvester
Principal MySQL Database Administrator
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorPeter Sylvester is a Principal MySQL Database Administrator with over a decade of hands-on MySQL experience and more than 15 years working with SQL, currently helping customers at Percona solve large-scale database challenges. He combines deep internals knowledge—presented at conferences like DataOps Barcelona and regional Linux User Groups—with practical cloud and automation skills across GCP, AWS, Docker, Ansible, and Python. His career spans consulting and leadership roles where he engineered migrations, high-availability architectures, and petabyte-scale operations for diverse clients, and he routinely handles tier‑3 escalations and pre-sales scoping. Certified as an Oracle MySQL OCP and an AWS Architect Associate, he also brings experience with NoSQL and graph systems such as Cassandra and Neo4j. Notably, he improved application throughput by hundreds of percent through database redesign early in his career and builds internal tooling to automate delivery and reduce operational toil. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, he blends hands-on troubleshooting with coaching and training to uplift teams while solving complex data problems.
11 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (22)
orientdb7
relational-databases6
database6
sql6
indexing6
graph-database6
percona6
mysql-proxy6
high-performance5
rdbms5
document-database5
geospatial5
proxy5
graph5
nosql5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
PeterTheDBA/MySQLDataLoader
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 32 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 month
sysown/proxysql
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
High-performance MySQL proxy with a GPL license.
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
gpl-licensemysqlproxygplpercona
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