Akshay has over a decade of experience in the field of Database Reliability Engineering, which he uses to solve MySQL-related scaling and performance problems, in the Cloud. Akshay has deep interests in distributed systems like Kubernetes and has leveraged it to build highly scalable systems, some of which processes petabytes of data every day, whereas others provide a reliable way to scale databases in the cloud. Prior to working at Shopify, Akshay worked at Tumblr, one of the largest websites in the world, and Percona where he managed a team of DBAs.