Bio

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.