San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Chief (Scalibility + DataLayer + MySQL) * Architect at RockYou!
- Past
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- 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
- Education
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- San Francisco State University
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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
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Chief (Scalibility + DataLayer + MySQL) * Architect
RockYou!
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 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.
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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.
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Lead MySQL Database Architect
Yahoo! Inc
(Internet industry)
2005 — 2008 (3 years )
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mySQL Architect (DBA)
Flickr
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
July 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 9 months)
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Sr. Database Engineer / Sr. Programmer / Sr. MySQL DBA
Friendster
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
November 2003 — July 2005 (1 year 9 months)
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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.
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mySQL DBA / Database Engineer
Friendfinder Networks, Inc.
(Internet industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
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Sr. Database Engineer
Friend Finder Inc.
(Internet industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
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Web Developer
Vendio
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
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Systems Engineer
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1994 — 1999 (5 years )
Dathan Pattishall’s Education
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San Francisco State University
CSc , Computer Science , 1994 — 1999
Additional Information
Dathan Pattishall’s Websites:
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 Groups:
mySQL
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Percona
Dathan Pattishall’s Honors:
2004 - MySQL Application of the Year Award for Friendster
2005 - MySQL Application of the Year Award for Flickr
