Dominic Preuss

Innovating in the MySQL Community

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Technologist. Builder. Product Person. New Yorker from the Midwest living in Silicon Valley. Currently, the CEO and Co-Founder of @VillageSQL. Previously, I was a General Manager at AWS. I also was a Director of Product Management at Google and Chief Product Officer at SecondMarket. I have also worked at Trilogy Software, Meetup.com, and a Dow Jones/IAC joint venture. I went to Duke (E'99) and got a degree in Biomedical Engineering (BME).

Experience

  • Village Steward (CEO) at VillageSQL
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    Founded a company focused on providing innovation in the MySQL Community.

  • Angel Investor at Hudson River Angels
    Jul 2008 - Feb 2026 · 17 yrs 8 mos

    Hudson River Angels (HRA) is an early-stage investment group for technology companies. HRA focuses on seed-round internet startups that are looking for guidance, advice and capital to accelerate the process from idea to viable company.

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) (San Francisco Bay Area)
    • General Manager, RDS Commercial Databases
      Apr 2023 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Managing engineering, product management and overall P&L for commercial (SQL Server, Oracle, Db2) databases

    • General Manager, Timestream
      Apr 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Managing product and engineering teams solving customers needs around time series use cases.

  • Google (6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Director of Product Management, Core Developer
      Sep 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Director of Product Management, Google Cloud Platform
      Nov 2014 - Sep 2019 · 4 yrs 11 mos

      Responsible for Storage and Database products on @GoogleCloud

  • Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) at SecondMarket, Inc.
    Aug 2010 - Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Oversaw product and engineering teams at SecondMarket while building the largest marketplace for private company stock (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and all alternative assets (Structured Products, Bankruptcy Claims)