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Speakers

Alexander Rubin

Employers on the program

  1. 2022–2026Amazon Web Services5 talks
  2. 2019VirtualHealth2 talks
Events6
Conferences3
Talks7
Years active2019–2026
Miles between events11,5616 in-person events · 2 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Percona Live
  • AWS re:Invent
  • FOSDEM

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:InventbreakoutRed teaming Aurora and gen AI: offense, defense, response
as Amazon Web Services
Databases and generative AI workloads are high-value targets that demand continuous adversarial testing. In this session, learn how AWS red team engineers use…Show less

Databases and generative AI workloads are high-value targets that demand continuous adversarial testing. In this session, learn how AWS red team engineers use AI to discover innovative ways to strengthen Amazon Aurora and other cloud-native database services against modern threats.

May 27, 2026Percona Live 2026 Bay AreaPercona LivespeakerActive Security Honeypot for MySQL and PostgreSQL: protecting databases from ransomware attacks
as AWS

Summary

Video
Feb 1, 2025FOSDEM 2025FOSDEMspeakerAtomic Honeypot: A MySQL Honeypot That Drops Shells
as AWS
Meet an attacking MySQL honepot which can “Attack the attackers”. In 2023 we have found a CVE (CVE-2023-21980) in MySQL that allows a rogue MySQL “server” to…Show less

Meet an attacking MySQL honepot which can “Attack the attackers”. In 2023 we have found a CVE (CVE-2023-21980) in MySQL that allows a rogue MySQL “server” to attack a client connecting to it; attack meaning RCE on the client side.

Video
May 22, 2023Percona Live 2023Percona LivespeakerPen-testing open source databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
as AWS
Video
May 16, 2022Percona Live 2022Percona LivespeakerUsing Roles and Partial Revokes To Improve Security in MySQL 8.0
as AWS
For many years MySQL had a problem with managing granular privileges: Anyone who had all privileges on a MySQL system database could grant all other privileges,…Show less

For many years MySQL had a problem with managing granular privileges: Anyone who had all privileges on a MySQL system database could grant all other privileges, including "grant option" and "super." That complicated managing privileges and resulted in a less secure setup. MySQL 8.0 introduced 3...

May 28, 2019Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019Percona LivetutorialMySQL Performance Schema in Action
as VirtualHealth

Performance Schema is a powerful diagnostic instrument for:

May 28, 2019Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019Percona LivespeakerOpensource Column Store Databases: MariaDB ColumnStore vs. ClickHouse
as VirtualHealth
Running an analytical (OLAP) workload on top of MySQL can be slow and painful. A specifically designed storage format ("Column Store") can significantly improve…Show less

Running an analytical (OLAP) workload on top of MySQL can be slow and painful. A specifically designed storage format ("Column Store") can significantly improve analytical queries' performance. There are a number of opensource column store databases around. In this talk, I will focus on two of...

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Peter Zaitsev5—2026
Michael Coburn4—2026
Vinicius Grippa4—2026
Sveta Smirnova312026
Agustin Gallego3—2026
Avinash Vallarapu3—2026
David Murphy3—2026
Ivan Groenewold3—2026
Jim Mlodgenski3—2026
Matthew Boehm3—2026
René Cannaò3—2026
Robert Hodges3—2026
Frédéric Descamps3—2025
Yoshinori Matsunobu3—2025
Charly Batista3—2023

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.