René Cannaò

René Cannaò is the Founder & CEO of ProxySQL, the widely adopted open-source database proxy he created in 2013. With over 15 years of experience as a Database Administrator primarily on MySQL, he has worked as a Senior MySQL Support Engineer at Sun/Oracle, Senior Operational DBA at Blackbird, and consulted for companies including Dropbox. A MySQL Rockstars 2024 award winner, Oracle MySQL Community Contributor of the Year, and MySQL Community Member of the Year, René is a prolific community contributor and regular speaker at Percona Live, FOSDEM, OpenWorld, and MySQL Days. In 2026, ProxySQL extended support to PostgreSQL, bringing the same performance and scalability-first philosophy to the Postgres ecosystem.