Hi, I am a consultant, advisor, entrepreneur and a long-time computer performance geek. I’m interested in the inner workings of complex systems and especially how all the pieces work together. That helps me build and fix enterprise data systems with less of trial’n’error and more of a systematic approach.
30 years ago, I started as a part-time C developer and then moved to Unix, Linux, Oracle RDBMS and various distributed systems on-premises and in the cloud - I navigate the entire stack. I occasionally consult, speak and deliver my performance tuning and troubleshooting training courses too. Over the years I have helped enterprise customers in about 25 countries on 6 continents.
In addition to my technical research, consulting & training work I talk (and learn) at conferences too.
As my introduction says, I have been a computer performance geek and entrepreneur for a long time. Most of this time I have been an independent consultant or have ran a company I had founded or co-founded.
2008: Co-founded a startup called E2SN. We built a product to help large enterprises with their data center consolidation and virtualization planning. We invented novel technologies like automatic database workload characterization and Bookshelf Graphs for data visualization.
2010: Co-founded a startup around the Voicee app that enabled asynchronous voice communication and collaboration. By now, big players like Apple and WhatsApp have added such functionality directly into their products.
2011: Founded a consulting company Enkitec Europe and teamed up with Enkitec in US to be part of the world’s most successful Oracle Exadata team. I built Enkitec Group’s business in EMEA region.
2014: Enkitec group got acquired by Accenture and I became a director of R&D in Accenture Enkitec Group.
2015: Co-founded and was the first investor in Gluent (acquired by Google), a data virtualization company breaking down data silos with the help of modern cloud technologies. During my tenure as the founding CEO and product lead, we successfully went through the stages of the idea » funding » team » product » first enterprise customers from mid-size to Fortune 500.
2024: Having fun and working on my open source 0x.tools project that will radically change how people approach system performance issues and drill-down observability :-)
