Programme Committee

Peter Zaitsev

Co-founder at Percona and Coroot

Entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot and FerretDB, one of the leading experts on open source strategy and database optimization

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Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot, FerretDB and other tech companies. As one of the leading experts in open source strategy and database optimization, he leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop into one of the most respected open source companies in the business.

A serial entrepreneur, he co-founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University, where he majored in Computer Science. He is co-author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance.

Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at open source database conferences and has contributed articles to outlets such as Fortune and DZone.