Alkin Tezuysal is the Director of Services at Altinity Inc. He has extensive experience in open-source relational databases, working in various sectors and large functions. With over three decades of industry experience, he has led global operations teams for MySQL and ClickHouse® customers and users. He has co-authored MySQL Cookbook by O’Reilly Media. He was awarded MySQL Rockstar 2023—Oracle (MySQL Community)—Co-authored Database Design and Modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL 2024 by Packt.