Matt Yonkovit ( The Yonk )
Matt Yonkovit is VP of Product for Database Server & AI at EnterpriseDB, leading the product efforts around their PostgreSQL-based AI platform and hybrid cloud database infrastructure. Lately he has been working with users all over the world looking to build and architect production grade open AI systems and semantic search implementations deployed in security-conscious enterprise environments.
With over 20 years of experience in open source databases, Matt has contributed to MySQL/Sun InnoDB internals, lead various teams at Percona focused on MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB —and led the launch of EDB's Hybrid Control Plane and PGAI framework. His work focuses on the practical side of databases. Lately his passion has been exploring the ins and outs of sovereign and open AI. Focusing on how data engineering improves AI application accuracy: embedding pipelines, hybrid search implementations, and vector optimization.
An active member of the open source community, Matt founded the Open Source Business Community, hosted two podcasts focused on sustainable open source development, and has delivered 100's of technical talks at conferences including FOSDEM, FOSSY, Open Source Summit, and PGConf. He emphasizes pragmatic engineering over vendor-driven solutions and real-world production experience over theoretical best practices.
Events
| Title | Day | Room | Track | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to Prevent Your AI from Returning Garbage: It Starts and Ends with Data Engineering |
Saturday | UB2.252A (Lameere) | Databases | 18:40 | 19:00 |