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Sam Lambert

CEO at PlanetScale

San Francisco, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

  • CEO & President

    2021

    Hyperscale databases for hyperscale customers

  • Chief Product Officer

    2020 - 2021

2017 - 2022

  • Sequoia Scout

    2017 - 2022

    The Sequoia Scout program enables angel investors to invest in promising companies out of a fund organized by Sequoia Capital.

2020 - 2020

  • Director of Video and Traffic Production Engineering

    2020 - 2020

2013 - 2020

  • Vice President of Engineering

    2018 - 2020

  • VP of Infrastructure Engineering

    2017 - 2018

    Scaling the home of software development.

  • Director of Systems Engineering

    2015 - 2017

  • MySQL DBA

    2013 - 2015

  • Technical Oversight Committee

    2017 - 2018

    The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) provides technical leadership to the cloud native community. Its functions include: - defining and maintaining the technical vision for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, - approving new projects and creating a conceptual architecture for the projects, - aligning projects and removing or archiving projects, - accepting feedback from end user committee and mapping to projects, - aligning interfaces to components under management (code reference implementations before standardizing), and - defining common practices to be implemented across CNCF projects.

  • Systems Architect

    2012 - 2013

  • Data platform lead

    2011 - 2012

2010 - 2011

  • Systems Administrator

    2010 - 2011