Radek Gruchalski is a veteran software developer with decades of diverse database experience, currently working as a Managing Director and Software Engineer at Klarrio GmbH, where he focuses on delivering distributed applications in the cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments. He has been building software for over 20 years and has worked with various databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, and HBase. Radek was drawn to YugabyteDB due to its PostgreSQL-compatible database with a purpose-built distributed consensus layer, which he found painless to set up and use. He is impressed by the ease of use, geo-replication features, and permissive license. Radek is now contributing to the code base and building other projects with YugabyteDB as a backend, and hopes to contribute to the documentation and operational procedures area in the future.