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Sam Lambert

CEO & President at PlanetScale

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Sam Lambert is the CEO at PlanetScale, where he has led the company as CEO and President, overseeing its growth and success. With an extensive background in technology leadership roles at companies like Facebook and GitHub, Lambert brings expertise in building world-class teams and scaling infrastructure to drive innovation and growth in the industry. He has also made impactful investments in companies like Fly.io and Hasura, demonstrating his keen eye for promising ventures in the developer tools and cloud infrastructure sectors.

Work Experience 

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PlanetScale

  • CEO & President

    2021 - Current

    Hyperscale databases for hyperscale customers

  • Chief Product Officer

    2020 - 2021

PlanetScale builds a database-as-a-service offering on Vitess, an open source sharding middleware system for MySQL.

Raised $105,000,000.00 from SignalFire, Jack Altman, Andreessen Horowitz, Max Mullen, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins and Tom Preston-Werner.

planetscale.com
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Sequoia Capital

  • Sequoia Scout

    2017 - 2022

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

Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.

sequoiacap.com
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Facebook

  • Director of Video and Traffic Production Engineering

    2020 - 2020

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

staynalive.com
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GitHub

  • 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

GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects.

Raised $350,000,000.00 from EquityZen and Employee Stock Option Fund.

github.com
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation

  • 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.

CNCF is an open source software foundation that hosts and nurtures projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus.

Raised $3,000,000.00 from Google Cloud.

cncf.io
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Performance Horizon Group

  • Systems Architect

    2012 - 2013

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Smith Electric Vehicles

  • Data platform lead

    2011 - 2012

Smith Electric Vehicles is a commercial truck manufacturer that manufactures and markets all-electric commercial vehicles and more.

Raised $67,000,000.00 from Sinopoly Battery.

smithelectric.com
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Visualsoft UK Ltd

  • Systems Administrator

    2010 - 2011

Investments 

Fly.io

Series B

Total funding: $110M

Cortex

Seed

Total funding: $84M

Hasura

Series A

Total funding: $140M

PlanetScale

Seed

Total funding: $110M

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