Mark Callaghan
Expert information
Open source database architecture
Reviews
4 out of 5 stars
Description
Mark spent 15 years as the tech lead for MySQL at Facebook and Google building great teams to scale MySQL far beyond expectations. Prior to that he worked on database internals at Oracle and Informix. He has an MS in Computer Science from UW-Madison.
The MySQL teams at Facebook and Google made significant contributions to the MySQL project including a large number of bug reports, bug fixes and features. The best feature is the MyRocks storage engine which replaced InnoDB to support social graph OLTP at Facebook.
His current focus is on performance and efficiency in MySQL, Postgres and RocksDB.