Alok Pathak
Alok Pathak is a Principal Database Administrator at Percona with over 16 years of experience designing, scaling, and stabilizing mission-critical MySQL infrastructures.
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Alok Pathak is a Principal Database Administrator at Percona with over 16 years of experience designing, scaling, and stabilizing mission-critical MySQL infrastructures.
An Oracle Certified MySQL DBA, he has led performance optimization and reliability initiatives for organizations ranging from fast-growing startups to large-scale enterprises, addressing multi-terabyte InnoDB deployments, high-concurrency OLTP workloads, and complex distributed replication architectures.
Alok’s expertise spans MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB, Galera Cluster, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Amazon RDS, Aurora, and Google Cloud SQL across both on-premises and cloud environments.
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