Vincent Reniers
Field Engineer at ScyllaDB
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Reniers is a Field Engineer at ScyllaDB with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and production database engineering. He holds a PhD in advanced NoSQL data modeling and has 17 peer-reviewed publications, plus a track record building an open-source workload-driven schema recommender (DBSR) for document databases. Vincent has managed large-scale distributed DB systems for a major telecom and led DB platform and DevOps work across Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis and Postgres in both on-prem and cloud environments. His background spans infrastructure-as-code, performance benchmarking, privacy-preserving data sharing, and even blockchain-based auditable access controls—bringing a research-driven lens to pragmatic operations. As an expat based in Sofia, he combines hands-on tooling and automation experience with teaching and industry coordination, making him adept at turning complex data requirements into deployable, measurable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at KU LeuvenASO: Mathematics and Science, ASO: Mathematics and Science at Katholieke Centrumscholen Sint-Truiden
English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (38)
deploying10
cassandra10
nosql10
scylla10
yahoo10
cpp10
database10
apache9
benchmark9
benchmarking9
ansible9
sql9
seastar9
automation8
monitoring7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vreniers/scylla-ansible-roles
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Ansible roles for deploying and managing Scylla, Scylla-Manager and Scylla-Monitoring
Contributions:16 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
vreniers/DBSR
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:3 commits in 5 months
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