Database and Remote Work Enthusiast @ (June 2020 - Present)
Developer Relations Engineer @ (May 2021 - January 2025)
Director of Customer Success @ (January 2020 - May 2020)
Director, Customer Solutions @ VividCortex (October 2019 - January 2020)
Director of Customer Service Delivery, Open Source Databases @ (November 2017 - October 2019)
OSDB Practice Advocate @ (February 2016 - November 2017)
DevOps Consultant @ (September 2015 - February 2016)
Principal Consultant - Open Source Databases @ (May 2014 - August 2015)
MySQL Lead Database Consultant @ (September 2013 - April 2014)
MySQL Database Consultant @ (February 2013 - August 2013)
MySQL DBA, SysAdmin @ (November 2007 - January 2013)
Web Developer @ Prime Market Targetting (November 2004 - November 2007)
Derek Downey Education
Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelor (Computer Science)
2000-2004
Derek Downey Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ansible
Apache
Database Administration
Database Design
Database Development
Database Management
Databases
Disaster Recovery
Docker
Git
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Google Cloud Spanner
HAProxy
High Availability
Leadership
MongoDB
MySQL
Nginx
PHP
Performance Tuning
Proxy
Relational Databases
Replication
SQL
Security
Shell Scripting
Team Leadership
Technology Leadership
Unix
Customer Service
Project Management
Amazon Web Services Aws
Facebook Wall
jQuery
HTML
Facebook
Permissions
Parent Child
Hierarchy
Amazon Web Services
Derek Downey Summary
Derek Downey, based in Knoxville, TN, US, is currently a Vice President of Customer Engineering at PlanetScale. Derek Downey brings experience from previous roles at DataRook, Inc., Distributed Database Administrators, Google and SolarWinds. Derek Downey holds a 2000 - 2004 Bachelor in Computer Science @ Illinois Institute of Technology. With a robust skill set that includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Apache, Database Administration, Database Design and more. Derek Downey has 4 emails and 1 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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