Vadim Tkachenko

Vadim Tkachenko is Altinity Principal Advisor, but he is better known as co-founder and CTO of Percona. Vadim leads the Percona Engineering Team, which focuses on the development of Percona software products, technology research, and performance evaluations of Percona’s and third-party products. Vadim’s research team designs no-gimmick tests of hardware, filesystems, storage engines, and databases that surpass the standard performance and functionality scenario benchmarks. He brings his Percona background and experience to Altinity. Previously, he founded a web development company in his native Ukraine and spent two years in the High-Performance Group within the official MySQL support team.