The Story So Far

It all started with René Cannaò's initial release of ProxySQL, a GPLv3 licensed open source project in 2013.

Shortly after the initial releases, the project's popularity grew at a surprisingly fast rate as user success stories started spreading across the MySQL community. As the project feature requests grew so did the project, almost exponentially! It was clear that ProxySQL had achieved widespread adoption in mission critical environments. Market demands for ProxySQL consulting services and official product support gave rise to the company ProxySQL.

Over the years and owing to the community's warm reception of our company we have steadily grown and extended activities to database reliability engineering, consulting, development and training as well. Our software and services continue to grow serving countless industries globally. All this has helped to make every release of ProxySQL better than the last.

Our efforts are focused on providing high performance products and tailored services to help our customers and community users increase their operational efficiency while driving down the total cost of ownership.

René has received a number of peer recognized awards including the MySQL Community Member of the Year, Oracle MySQL Community Contributor of the Year and MySQL Rockstars award.

In 2026, Ronald Bradford joined the executive team, strengthening the deep roots in the open source database community. Ronald is a published author and speaker, and has received a number of peer recognized awards including MySQL Community Member of the Year, Oracle ACE Director, and MySQL Rockstars legend.