Speaking Engagements

At preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days, I've spoken about my experience running BreachDirectory.com – a data breach search engine – and explained how I came about writing a book on MySQL titled Hacking MySQL: Breaking, Optimizing, and Securing MySQL for Your Use Case with Apress.

defCamp is the biggest security conference in Central & Eastern Europe – I've spoken at the event and walked attendees through what's involved when making databases tick with bigger data sets. Focus areas: big data on MySQL, MySQL internals and configuration, SQL query types and overhead, database optimization, data breach search engines (BreachDirectory.com), index types and internals of indexes, Hacking MySQL, and other things.

Spoke at Software Architecture Conference 2024 covering big data, internals of MySQL, prerequisites and requiements to work with big data sets in MySQL, internals of MySQL, as well as backups, overhead, and data breach search engines.

Spoke at the Conf42 Platform Engineering 2024 conference and walked people through the things I've learned when working with billions of records in MySQL & MariaDB.

Spoke at the MariaDB Server Fest in Berlin in 2024 covering the ins and outs of indexes in MariaDB.

Spoke at the largest free tech conference in Latin America focused on Computer Science. My speech walked attendees through how to optimize their MySQL database management systems for big data sets.

Spoke at an annual online cyber event and walked attendees through how big data can assist in building and operating data breach search engines.

Spoke at one of the biggest data science conferences in Europe (Serbia) and walked attendees through how to use MariaDB to build data breach search engines & covered aspects related to it (MariaDB architecture, ACID vs. BASE, SQL query structure & overhead, WAF functionality, storage engines, indexing, and more.)

Spoke at the MariaDB Server Fest & Unconference teaching developers how to assemble a performance and security toolbox for their existing MySQL & MariaDB installations.

Spoke at the biggest open-source database event in the world – Percona LIVE – alongside the best database engineers in the world. The roster of international speakers included people representing MariaDB, MinervaDB, Percona, Pythian, ProxySQL, Amazon, Adobe, Booking.com, Carnegie Mellon University, RedHat, ScyllaDB, Elastic, indeed, Uber, PayPal, Venmo, Shopify, LinkedIn, Edmodo, Intel, MessageBird, Huawei, Yandex, Wise and other companies.

Delivered a presentation on database performance at one of Europe's largest big data conferences. Primary focuses: big data, high load, data science, machine learning, and AI. Additionally conducted a workshop for developers.

World Summit Awards evaluates the best digital innovations in the world. In 2020, BreachDirectory was nominated at the national level and represented Lithuania against an international jury competing for the Youth Innovation for Europe award.

Spoke about the correlation between data breaches, big data and MySQL as well as my experience building BreachDirectory alongside with speakers from BitDefender, Bloomberg, CrowdStrike, Google, Ubisoft and other companies. DevTalks Reimagined had more than 6,000 attendees and my speech was rated 4.40 / 5.00.

Spoke at the biggest software conference in the Baltics covering my experience building BreachDirectory.com at the time.