Talener
- Hands-on MySQL 8 expertise
- Fluent with query observability and tuning tooling
- Past experience of scaling transactional systems by large multiples
- Resolved live production database incidents
- Designed architectures or schemas scaled to meet major growth
- Nice to haves: Cloud, Distributed SQL, and financial services experience
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