Tim Vaillancourt

Tim Vaillancourt is a Staff Database Reliability Engineer at Slack since January 2022, specializing in technologies such as Vitess, MySQL, Golang, Chef, Terraform, and AWS. Prior experience includes serving as a Senior Database Infrastructure Engineer at GitHub, where Tim was a maintainer of GitHub's gh-ost, and roles at Percona as a Senior Technical Operations Architect, where Tim focused on MongoDB and container orchestration. Earlier positions include becoming the Lead MySQL DBA at Electronic Arts, working on high-profile game franchises, and several system administrator roles across companies like Amazon, Qool Media, HostForWeb Inc, and IBM Canada. Tim possesses extensive experience with various database technologies, performance tuning, and system architecture.