Jitendra (Jiten) Vaidya is co-founder and CEO at PlanetScale (https://planetscale.com), a company that supports Vitess (https://vitess.io). For most of his career, he worked as a backend infrastructure engineer and manager at companies such as Dropbox, YouTube and Google. It was at YouTube, where he managed the DBA and SRE teams, that the open-source project Vitess started.

Jiten is an experienced speaker who has talked about Vitess at many conferences (Kubecon, Velocity, Percona Live etc.)