Sergei Glushchenko is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of deep expertise in database kernel development and performance engineering, focused on MySQL ecosystems. He has driven kernel features and high-impact performance optimizations for DBaaS products at Huawei Cloud and implemented core functionality and fixes for Percona XtraBackup and Percona Server. His work emphasizes scalability, single-thread throughput, CPU-architecture-specific tuning, and adaptive algorithms that squeeze predictable performance from complex storage stacks. Based in Georgia, Sergei combines hands-on low-level coding with pragmatic system design, often surfacing subtle bottlenecks that others miss. His background in engineering from Altai State Technical University underpins a career spent optimizing real-world database systems used in production at scale.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science at Altai State Technical University
Open source hot backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB databases
Contributions:956 commits, 817 PRs, 465 pushes in 7 years 11 months
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