Sergey Pronin
Sergey is a product leader focusing on delivering robust open-source solutions. After having consistently contributed to the growth of Percona and its product open source culture as a VP of Product, he is now leading the OpenEverest open source database platform. Digital nomad, who enjoys spreading the word about data on Kubernetes.
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