Mike Mull
Owner/Engineer at Ekadanta Labs
Mike has 40 years of professional experience in a diverse set of fields including simulation, recommender systems and fintech. He currently specializes in database technology, which is difficult because people keeping making more of it. At present he's interested in Postgres, Iceberg, DataFusion, and Polars.
Talks
Data Con LA 2026
Reading the Tea Leaves: Query Optimization with Postgres and AI
Data Engineering Intermediate
A practical tour of cost-based query optimizers, how to read EXPLAIN plans, and how LLMs can help diagnose and fix slow queries, demonstrated on Postgres.