Jessie is an Enterprise Architect at Cockroach Labs, where she serves as a trusted advisor for navigating complex, mission-critical initiatives. She helps customers accelerate their journey to production by providing expert guidance on both database architecture and application design. With over 20 years of industry experience—and more than a decade focused on distributed systems—Jessie brings deep expertise in advanced schema design, performance tuning, and resilient CockroachDB deployments on Kubernetes across AWS and Azure. Known for her proactive mindset, Jessie excels at identifying key areas for improvement, mitigating risks, and ensuring the successful delivery of customer projects. Before joining Cockroach Labs, Jessie held roles as a Solutions Architect at Databricks and Cloudera, and as a Professional Services Consultant at Teradata.