Nikolai Ikhalainen

Nikolay Ikhalainen is a highly skilled expert with over 20 years of experience working with databases as a DBA, developer, and consultant. His professional specialization includes MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, with a key competency in optimizing, scaling, and enhancing the reliability of high-load DBMS. During his tenure at Percona, he consulted for the world's largest internet platforms, helping to identify and fix critical errors as well as database performance issues. Among the organizations he collaborated with are Facebook, Uber, Booking, Broadcom, United Healthcare, Nokia, and other projects with millions of users. The expert combines development and administration experience, always striving to remain at the center of interaction between these two worlds. He is actively involved in launching and scaling databases in Kubernetes and implements modern approaches to building fault-tolerant architectures. One of his significant professional achievements was his key role in scaling "Kinopoisk" from 60,000 to 20 million unique users per day, which provided the project with resilience and growth under extreme loads.