Rene Cannao
Chief Executive Officer at ProxySQL
Marsaskala, Marsascala, Malta
Summary
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Top SchoolRene Cannao is a seasoned technology executive and co-founder with 13 years of professional experience building and operating high-performance database and infrastructure products from the engineering trenches to the CEO seat. As CEO of ProxySQL and co-founder of SysOwn, he blends deep operational DBA and systems engineering roots—spanning Sun Microsystems to PalominoDB—with strategic product leadership focused on scalability, reliability, and security. He has made notable open-source backend contributions to the widely used ProxySQL project, resolving critical MySQL session bugs and improving SSL and session handling to harden production deployments. Based in Chon Buri, Thailand, Rene combines hands-on C-level decision making with low-level protocol and systems expertise, a rare mix that helps bridge customer needs and technical debt. Colleagues describe him as an operator who still codes: he routinely dives into performance tuning and session-level fixes rather than delegating every technical detail.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico Archimede, Messina
English, Italian
Github Skills (8)
debug10
c-language10
ssl10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
mysql10
performance-optimization9
database-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sysown/proxysql
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
High-performance MySQL proxy with a GPL license.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 releases, 63 reviews, 4168 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rene primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the ProxySQL project, focusing on enhancing the system's performance, stability, and security. Their work included the implementation of a new feature to modify the `max_lag_ms` setting, resolving a critical bug in the MySQL session handling related to COM_PING with disabled multiplexing, and improving how SSL connections are managed to prevent potential infinite loops. The user also worked on enhancements related to session variables and database handling.
gpl-licensemysqlproxygplpercona
renecannao/proxysql-old
Nov 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:165 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 2 months
performancemysqlproxyhigh-performance
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