Vadim Tkachenko
CTO Co-Founder at Altinity
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVadim Tkachenko is a seasoned database systems leader and CTO/co-founder with nearly two decades of experience designing and optimizing high-performance open-source database products. At Percona he leads development of Percona Server, XtraBackup and XtraDB Cluster, blending hands-on performance engineering with product and team leadership. Early roles at MySQL AB and contributions to the widely used sysbench benchmarking tool evidence deep expertise in benchmarking, query execution internals, and realistic workload simulation. He also serves on Altinity’s board, reflecting an active role in the broader data-engineering ecosystem. Based in the Raleigh–Durham area, he combines formal computer science training with an entrepreneurial streak dating back to founding StealthWeb, and is known for pragmatic, measurable improvements to database throughput and reliability.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Russian, English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (16)
c1710
database-tuning10
lua10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
c1110
database-optimization10
performance-monitoring9
performance-measurement9
performance-testing9
performance-monitor9
performance-analysis9
randomization9
performance-tuning9
mysql8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
akopytov/sysbench
May 2009 - Apr 2016
Scriptable database and system performance benchmark
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Vadim primarily focused on enhancing the sysbench database and system performance benchmark tool. Their contributions involved modifying the database query mechanisms, specifically implementing `db_query` where `db_execute` was previously used, enhancing existing database test scripts, and adding new features such as `oltp_skip_trx` and Pareto distribution for random number generation. These changes involved updating core Lua scripts and C code, which likely aimed to improve the functionality and performance of the benchmarking process.
benchmarkfreebsdmicro-benchmarksdatabasepostgresql
Percona-Lab/sysbench-mongodb
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
benchmarksysbenchmongodb
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