Mike Limon is a highly skilled database performance specialist and consultant. With 16 years of experience in relational databases, he specializes in MySQL, MariaDB, Vertica, RedShift, and other related systems. He has been instrumental in helping organizations resolve challenges with OLAP and OLTP systems, designing and evolving architectures, implementing automation and monitoring for improved visibility and handling of migrated to columnar, denormalized, or JSON-based solutions. His passion for problem-solving and continuous improvement has helped several companies achieve operational excellence with successful project delivery, mentoring, and team growth.

Mike's exceptional skillset includes proficiency in Bash, Python, and monitoring tools for automation, deployment, debugging, and benchmarking. He has worked closely with Postgres, Oracle, and MSSQL and delivered successful migrations from every platform. Before starting his consulting business, Mike held various roles at Twitter and Six Apart, where he helped the social media giant scale up from hundreds of tweets per second to hundreds of thousands of tweets per second as their first full-time DBA. He is also a former operations engineer and DBA at Friendster and Friendfinder Networks.

Mike's passion for excellence is only rivaled by his love for cats, as he is a proud owner of Craig, his adorable pet. You can access Mike's current resume at https://www.dropbox.com/s/8lmf0c6j4t186a1/mike_limon_resume_2018.txt. If you are looking for a highly skilled database performance specialist to tackle your organization's unique challenges, Mike Limon is the person to call.