Cockroach Labs DFW User Group Meeting: Open Collaborative

You’re invited to the next Cockroach Labs DFW User Group: Open Collaborative at Chicken N Pickle on Thursday, January 16, 2025.

Hear from Cockroach Labs’ Spencer Kimball, Co-Founder and CEO and Peter Mattis, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer. As early Google database engineers, they played a pivotal role in scaling Google from 300 to over 30,000 employees in 9+ years. Hear their fascinating journey of conceptualizing distributed SQL and the dedication it took to build an enterprise-grade, highly reliable, cloud-native database. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the pioneers of modern distributed database innovation!

This event is an Open Collaborative, which means you don’t have to be a current customer in order to attend and find value from it. Come and learn more about Cockroach Labs, share your best practices, have a little fun, and rub shoulders with other CockroachDB users, partners, and interested parties.

Spencer Kimball 

Spencer is the CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he leads the development of scalable and resilient database solutions. Prior to this, he was an engineer at Square, contributing to their payment platform, and served as CTO at Viewfinder, overseeing social photo-sharing applications. He also spent nearly a decade at Google as a Staff Software Engineer, working on projects like the Google Servlet Engine and Colossus, Google’s distributed file storage system. Earlier in his career, Spencer co-founded WeGo Systems, where he led technology development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Peter Mattis

Peter is the co-founder and CTO of Cockroach Labs where he works on a bit of everything, from low-level optimization of code to refining the overall design. He has worked on distributed systems for most of his career, designing and implementing the original Gmail backend search and storage system at Google and designing and implementing Colossus, the successor to Google's original distributed file system. In his university days, he was one of the original authors of the GIMP and is still amazed when people tell him they use it frequently.