Matthew Penaroza is a Principal Solutions Engineer at PingCAP, where he helps enterprises design scalable, cost-efficient database architectures using TiDB. He has worked closely with engineering teams at companies like Plaid and Atlassian to architect distributed data solutions that support mission-critical, high-scale workloads. One of his primary focuses is developing creative strategies to reduce infrastructure costs without compromising performance. He specializes in helping teams simplify complex data architectures, unify operational and analytical workloads, and scale with confidence.