About Us

The Story So Far

Key Milestones

Our Mantra

Maximizing the Performance & Scalability of the Database

It all started with René Cannaò's initial release of ProxySQL, a GPLv3 licensed open source project in 2013.

Shortly after the initial releases, the project's popularity grew at a surprisingly fast rate as user success stories started spreading across the MySQL community. As the project feature requests grew so did the project, almost exponentially! It was clear that ProxySQL had achieved widespread adoption in mission critical environments. Market demands for ProxySQL consulting services and official product support gave rise to the company ProxySQL.

Over the years and owing to the community's warm reception of our company we have steadily grown and extended activities to database reliability engineering, consulting, development and training as well. Our software and services continue to grow serving countless industries globally. All this has helped to make every release of ProxySQL better than the last.

Our efforts are focused on providing high performance products and tailored services to help our customers and community users increase their operational efficiency while driving down the total cost of ownership.

René has received a number of peer recognized awards including the MySQL Community Member of the Year, Oracle MySQL Community Contributor of the Year and MySQL Rockstars award.

Leadership

The Executive Team

CEO

René Cannaò

CEO

René founded ProxySQL in 2013 with a single mantra: maximizing the performance and scalability of the database. His vision and engineering leadership have shaped ProxySQL into one of the world's most widely adopted open source database projects.

COO

Jesmar Cannaò

COO

Jesmar oversees operations, professional services, and global customer success — ensuring that ProxySQL's commercial offerings match the quality and reliability of the open source project itself.

CSO

Alkin Tezuysal

CSO

Alkin has over three decades of industry experience in open source relational databases, and has led global operations teams. He is co-author of the MySQL Cookbook (4th Edition, O'Reilly) and Database Design and Modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL (Packt, 2024), an Oracle ACE Pro (2025/2026), Oracle MySQL Contributor (2026) and MySQL Rockstar 2023, and a known speaker at open source database events worldwide.