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Slava Akhmechet

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Founder at RethinkDB

New York City Metropolitan Area

FoundedRethinkDB · YC

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About

Slava Akhmechet is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, where he leads engineering for Azure MySQL. He previously founded RethinkDB, which was acquired by Stripe, and incubated Stripe Billing. His work focuses on distributed systems, developer platforms, and engineering teams.

Founder at RethinkDBYC S09

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Slava went through Y Combinator (Summer 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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RethinkDB's investors · 13

ACE & CompanyGenevaAgrolimen VenturesAmicus Capital PartnersBangaloreAndreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2010Avalon Ventures Management, LlcLa Jolla · $500K – $10M checksCRV (Charles River Ventures)Bay Area · $250K – $5M checksDFJSan Mateo · since 2013Highland Capital PartnersCambridge · $1M – $10M checks · since 2013SV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checksThreshold VenturesPalo Alto · $500K – $20M checksWebb Investment NetworkSan Francisco · $500K – $750K checks · since 2013Western Technology InvestmentPortola ValleyY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2009

Co-founders at RethinkDB

MGMichael Glukhovsky
Michael GlukhovskyFounder

Experience

  1. MicrosoftPrincipal Engineering Managercurrent2024 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
  2. MicrosoftPrincipal Engineering Manager2022 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  3. StripeProduct Manager2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  4. RethinkDBFounder & CEO (YC S09)2009 — 2016Mountain View, California
  5. MarketAxessSoftware Engineer2007 — 2008New York City Metropolitan Area
  6. Thomson ReutersSoftware Engineer2004 — 2005New York City Metropolitan Area

Skills & more

Standards ComplianceSecurityCross-functional Team LeadershipDeveloper ToolsStartupsCustomer Escalation ManagementProduct ManagementIncident ManagementCloud InfrastructureSystems DesignSystem ArchitectureTechnical Leadership
+12 moreIncident ResponseReliability EngineeringInfrastructureEngineering ManagementSoftware DevelopmentStart-upsScalabilityUser Interface DesignSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Enterprise SoftwareREST APIsDatabases

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Who is Slava Akhmechet?
Slava Akhmechet is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, where he leads engineering for Azure MySQL. He previously founded RethinkDB, which was acquired by Stripe, and incubated Stripe Billing. His work focuses on distributed systems, developer platforms, and engineering teams.
Where does Slava Akhmechet work?
Slava Akhmechet is Founder of RethinkDB.
What companies did Slava Akhmechet found?
Slava Akhmechet founded RethinkDB.
Where did Slava Akhmechet go to school?
Slava Akhmechet studied at Y Combinator; Stony Brook University (PhD, Computational Neuroscience (left to start RethinkDB)); Stony Brook University (B.S., Computer Science).

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