Vinicius Grippa
Vinicius Grippa is a Lead Database Engineer at Readyset and an Oracle ACE Director with over 20 years of experience in the database ecosystem. Co-author of Learning MySQL, 2nd Edition, he specializes in architecting and optimizing mission-critical MySQL and MongoDB environments on Linux.
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Vinicius Grippa is a Lead Database Engineer at Readyset and an Oracle ACE Director with over 20 years of experience in the database ecosystem. Co-author of Learning MySQL, 2nd Edition, he specializes in architecting and optimizing mission-critical MySQL and MongoDB environments on Linux.
Previously, Vinicius spent 8 years at Percona as a Lead Senior Database Engineer, where he spearheaded global initiatives to solve complex performance and scalability challenges.
A passionate open-source advocate, he leads the MySQL User Group in Brazil and is a regular speaker at major global stages like FOSDEM, Percona Live, and OpenInfra Summit. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo (USP).
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