Altinity Leadership

Management Team
Board & Advisors

Robert Hodges

CEO

Robert Hodges is CEO of Altinity. He has decades of experience working with database systems and enterprise software. Robert was formerly CEO of Continuent, which was acquired by VMware in 2014. He spent four years at VMware working on cloud products before joining Altinity in 2019.

Mindaugas Zukas

COO

Mindaugas is the COO and co-founder of Altinity. He has years of experience in managing highly skilled professional teams working with Internet projects. Before Altinity, Mindaugas has held technical and business roles at Internet/tech solution companies.

Alexander Zaitsev

CTO

Alexander is a co-founder of Altinity. He has 20 years of engineering and engineering management experience in several international companies. Alexander is an expert in high scale analytics systems design and implementation. He designed and deployed petabyte-scale data warehouses, including one of the earliest ClickHouse deployments outside of Yandex.

Aurimas Jacikevicius

Head of Sales

As Head of Sales at Altinity, think of Aurimas as your experienced guide to mastering ClickHouse. He brings over a decade of high-level, multinational-corporation experience to his role. Plus, he has the can-do, pragmatic spirit you’d expect from someone who’s been a General Manager and Board Member at smaller startups. He gets things done. And is a fierce advocate for the interests of our customers.

Stephanie McArthur

Head of Marketing

As Altinity’s Head of Marketing, Stephanie shapes the company’s brand and brings its message to targeted audiences. Having worked with both startups and established market leaders for over 15 years, Stephanie knows the ropes: from strategic marketing planning to campaign execution that drives market awareness and measurable results.

Valery Tkachenko

Head of Administration

Valery is the get-anything-and-everything-done person at Altinity. You may call that “Administration.” We call it “working wonders.” We need extra closet space to account for all the hats she wears: HR, Accounts Payable and Receivable, Budgeting and Financial Management, Procurement, and on and on. She has the spirit and work ethic of an entrepreneur. Which makes sense given that she once owned and managed a small online business. And prior to that she worked for many years in software development.

Peter Zaitsev

Board Member

Peter Zaitsev co-founded Percona and assumed the role of CEO in 2006. As one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. Peter was an early employee at MySQL AB, eventually leading the company’s High-Performance Group. A serial entrepreneur, Peter co-founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science.

Vadim Tkachenko

Board Member

Vadim Tkachenko is Altinity Principal Advisor, but he is better known as co-founder and CTO of Percona. Vadim leads Percona Engineering Team, which focuses on the development of Percona software products, technology research and performance evaluations of Percona’s and third-party products. Vadim’s research team designs no-gimmick tests of hardware, filesystems, storage engines, and databases that surpass the standard performance and functionality scenario benchmarks. He brings his Percona background and experience to Altinity. Previously, he founded a web development company in his native Ukraine and spent two years in the High-Performance Group within the official MySQL support team.

Mike Olson

Advisor

Mike Olson is a serial entrepreneur in the database industry. He was an early contributor to the Postgres and Berkeley DB open source database projects. His career includes both technical and executive roles at Britton Lee, Illustra, Informix, Sleepycat and Oracle. He was founding CEO at big data company Cloudera in 2008, and remained with the business until his retirement in 2019. He holds Bachelor’s and Masters degrees in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Anurag Gupta

Advisor

Anurag Gupta is the founder and CEO at Shoreline.io, a DevOps company focused on automated remediation. He previously was VP of analytics and transactional databases at AWS, where he led Aurora, EMR, Glue, Redshift, amongst others. His career includes technical and executive roles at Oracle, Arbor/Hyperion, TradingDynamics/Ariba, and Interlace Systems. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CMU