Derek Downey
Database Enthusiast | Xoogler
- Role
- Vice President of Customer Engineering at Planetscale
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Derek Downey
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.\"- Proverbs 4:7As a technologist excited about open source database systems and the businesses that they power, I am enthusiastic about efficiency through automation, Operational Visibility, the adoption of Cloud Technologies, and Virtual/Augmented reality enabling #RemoteWork by default.Companies with a #RemoteFirst mindset understand the future of work goes where the talent is, and this enables the greatest form of diversity in the teams they build.
Experience
Vice President of Customer Engineering
Apr 2025 — Present · Knoxville, TN, US
Education
Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelor, Computer Science
2000 — 2004
Skills
- Mysql
- Apache
- Performance Tuning
- High Availability
- Unix
- Sql
- Database Development
- Proxy
- Database Design
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Security
- Docker
- Mongodb
- Database Administration
- Ansible
- Databases
- Haproxy
- Nginx
- Relational Databases
- Database Management
- Php
- Replication
- Shell Scripting
- Disaster Recovery
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