Terry Purcell
Field CTO at TiDB, powered by PingCAP
Gig Harbor, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTerry Purcell is a seasoned database architect and Field CTO who bridges deep engineering expertise with customer-facing strategy, currently shaping TiDB's technical direction. He brings over three decades of specialization in SQL optimization and DB2 internals, having led the Db2 for z/OS optimizer and driven ML initiatives at IBM before architecting query optimizers at MariaDB and TiDB. Known for hands-on performance tuning and pragmatic design, he pairs low-level mainframe experience with modern distributed database thinking. Based in Gig Harbor, WA, Terry is equally comfortable in customer workshops and core engine design, and often translates complex optimizer trade-offs into actionable business outcomes.
2 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology at Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (22)
vector-search10
mysql10
agentic10
tidb10
scale10
agent10
go10
sql10
ai10
distributed-transactions10
serverless10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
database10
rocksdb8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
terry1purcell/tidb
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Try AI-powered Chat2Query free at : https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial
Contributions:1718 pushes, 199 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
aicloud-nativedatabasemysqltidb
terry1purcell/docs
Mar 2024 - Mar 2026
TiDB database documentation.
Contributions:97 pushes, 12 branches, 1 comment in 2 years
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