Vadim Tkachenko
CTO Co-Founder at Altinity
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVadim Tkachenko is a seasoned technology leader and CTO/co-founder with 16 years of experience building and scaling database and infrastructure software. As head of Percona's development team he steers flagship open-source products—Percona Server, Percona XtraBackup and Percona XtraDB Cluster—combining strategic leadership with hands-on engineering. His roots as a MySQL performance engineer and direct contributions to the widely used sysbench benchmark (adding features like oltp_skip_trx and Pareto RNG support) reflect deep expertise in performance tuning and benchmarking. A board member at Altinity and an entrepreneur since the late 1990s, he blends product-focused roadmapping with low-level optimization skills. Based in the Raleigh–Durham area and trained at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, he’s known for turning complex scalability challenges into reliable production systems.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Russian, English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (17)
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benchmarking10
c1110
c1710
database-tuning10
lua10
database-optimization10
performance-monitor9
performance-measurement9
performance-testing9
performance-monitoring9
performance-analysis9
randomization9
performance-tuning9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
akopytov/sysbench
May 2009 - Apr 2016
Scriptable database and system performance benchmark
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Vadim primarily focused on enhancing the sysbench database and system performance benchmark tool. Their contributions involved modifying the database query mechanisms, specifically implementing `db_query` where `db_execute` was previously used, enhancing existing database test scripts, and adding new features such as `oltp_skip_trx` and Pareto distribution for random number generation. These changes involved updating core Lua scripts and C code, which likely aimed to improve the functionality and performance of the benchmarking process.
benchmarkfreebsdmicro-benchmarksdatabasepostgresql
Percona-Lab/sysbench-mongodb
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
benchmarksysbenchmongodb
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