Tim Vaillancourt is an experienced Software Engineer currently working at PlanetScale as a core developer for Vitess/Neki since September 2025. Tim has held prominent roles in various organizations, including as a Maintainer for Vitess since May 2024, and as a Staff Database Reliability Engineer at Slack from January 2022 until September 2025. Additional notable positions include Sr. Database Infrastructure Engineer at GitHub, Sr. Technical Operations Architect at Percona, and Sr. MySQL DBA at Electronic Arts, where Tim led significant database projects for high-profile games. With expertise in technologies such as Golang, MySQL, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and AWS, Tim has contributed to open-source projects and developed best practices for database reliability and performance tuning.
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