Karthik Appigatla

Karthik Appigatla has been working on various large scale data stores for a decade primarily focused on MySQL. He started his career at Yahoo, where he was responsible for managing most critical databases, later he worked as Lead Database consultant at Pythian and then as Sr. Database Consultant at Percona helping clients scale/tune their high-transaction databases. Currently he is working as Sr. Database Engineer building the database as a service model at LinkedIn. He authored the MySQL 8 cookbook covering the new features available at Amazon. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/appigatla