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.