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
Leadership
Database Management
MongoDB
Relational Databases
Nginx
Ansible
Proxy
Apache
Performance Tuning
HAProxy
Database Development
Docker
PHP
Customer Service
Replication
SQL
Project Management
High Availability
Database Design
Security
MySQL
Amazon Web Services Aws
Shell Scripting
Database Administration
Databases
Facebook Wall
jQuery
HTML
Facebook
Disaster Recovery
Permissions
Unix
Parent Child
Hierarchy
Git
Team Leadership
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 Leadership, Database Management, MongoDB, Relational Databases, Nginx and more. Derek Downey has 4 emails and 1 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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