Peter Zaitsev is the co-founder and CEO of Percona. As one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. Percona employs over 140 open source professionals in over 30 countries and serves over 3,000 customers — including the who’s who of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups.