Dathan Pattishall

Current

• Chief (Scalibility + DataLayer + MySQL) * Architect at RockYou!

Past

• MySQL DBA/ARCH GURU at Yahoo (Flickr)
• Lead MySQL Database Architect at Yahoo! Inc
• mySQL Architect (DBA) at Flickr

• Sr. Database Engineer / Sr. Programmer / Sr. MySQL DBA at Friendster
• Sr. Database Engineer at FriendFinder Inc
• mySQL DBA / Database Engineer at Friendfinder Networks, Inc.
• Sr. Database Engineer at Friend Finder Inc.
• Web Developer at Vendio
• Systems Engineer at Sun Microsystems

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Education

• San Francisco State University

Recommended

9 people have recommended Dathan

Connections

173 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog

Dathan Pattishall’s Summary

Expert with Data Layout, High capacity scaling for millions of transactions per second-at a sub-fraction of the companies current cost. Expert with mySQL and the LAMP stack. Able to deduce and solve problems within hours-days of exploring backend resources. Able to provide excellent clean solutions for all tiers of a product(s).
All jobs that I have been at, within the 1st few weeks I've been able to reduce all server load by 50%, within a month I've already started on new designs to scale linearly. Within months a majority of data has been migrated to the new design allowing the company to scale linearly with minimal effort.

Dathan Pattishall’s Specialties:

Scaling, Capacity Planning, Architecture Improvements and additions, mySQL performance improvements and mySQL scaling solutions, PHP/PERL/JAVA/C/C++/other coding, backend coding, PROBLEM SOLVING.

Dathan Pattishall’s Experience

• Chief (Scalibility + DataLayer + MySQL) * Architect

  RockYou!

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Within a 6 months the new datalayer I designed and my team implemented, improved stability to obtain a 99.999 % uptime, improved throughput to do over 60K transactions per second which scales linearly. The major changes has catapulted and maintains Rockyou as the top third-party-app-developer across Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut etc. All using open-source solutions such as mySQL, memcached, Centos, puppet, apache, php, java, and many more.

• MySQL DBA/ARCH GURU

  Yahoo (Flickr)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  July 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 9 months)

  I build stuff, fix stuff, make stuff better.

• Lead MySQL Database Architect

  Yahoo! Inc

  (Internet industry)

  2005 — 2008 (3 years)

• mySQL Architect (DBA)

  Flickr

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  July 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 9 months)

• Sr. Database Engineer / Sr. Programmer / Sr. MySQL DBA

  Friendster

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2003 — July 2005 (1 year 9 months)

• Sr. Database Engineer

  FriendFinder Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 2001 — November 2003 (2 years 11 months)

  Scaled AdultFriendFinder from a single webserver and a few database servers to a farm of servers enabling a tripling of profit within a few months.

• mySQL DBA / Database Engineer

  Friendfinder Networks, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

• Sr. Database Engineer

  Friend Finder Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

• Web Developer

  Vendio

  (Internet industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years)

• Systems Engineer

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  1994 — 1999 (5 years)

Dathan Pattishall’s Education

• San Francisco State University

  CSc , Computer Science , 1994 — 1999

Additional Information

Dathan Pattishall’s Websites:

• My Blog

Dathan Pattishall’s Interests:

new technology, capacity planing, coding techniques, database design, PHP, mySQL, PERL, Java, C++, World of Warcraft, entertainment, scale.

Dathan Pattishall’s Honors:

2004 - MySQL Application of the Year Award for Friendster
2005 - MySQL Application of the Year Award for Flickr