Valerie Parham-thompson
Presales Solutions Engineer at PlanetScale
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolValerie Parham-Thompson is a Presales Solutions Engineer and open-source database specialist with a decade of experience designing, scaling, and optimizing mission-critical distributed database systems. She has driven technical discovery and solution design for enterprise clients across financial services, insurance, and retail, and previously built repeatable PostgreSQL consulting practices and automation at Pythian. Known for rescuing high-volume production environments, she combines deep tuning and performance work (cutting full-table scans and reducing query latency to milliseconds) with pragmatic automation and runbooks that accelerate time-to-value. Valerie is a trusted technical advisor who shapes product roadmaps through customer feedback, speaks regularly at industry events, and brings a rare mix of hands-on DBA craftsmanship and presales storytelling. Based in Durham, NC, she pairs business-school grounding with a long history of building resilient open-source database platforms and developer-facing documentation.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsKenan Flagler Business School - Bachelor of Science, Kenan Flagler Business School - Bachelor of Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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cassandra
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Github Skills (66)
annotations10
datasets10
deep-learning10
label-studio10
cpp10
labeling10
unicorns10
sql10
computer-vision10
high-performance10
database10
data-labeling10
semantic-segmentation10
image-annotation10
image-labeling10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dataindataout/pythonthehardway
Jun 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
dataindataout/yb_day2ops
Aug 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:62 PRs, 36 pushes, 60 branches in 2 months
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