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76th percentile
CouchDB creator and Couchbase co-founder now engineering at PlanetScale
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 78th percentile
- couchbase.com ranks #21,646 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)couchbase.com ranks #21,646 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Identified GitHub account @Damienkatz confirmed by name match.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account is over 15 years old, created in 2009.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Raised $2.0M for Relaxed, Inc. (later CouchOne) per SEC Form D filing.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder of CouchOne and co-founder of Couchbase.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active builder with 21 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Top GitHub repo 'Kayos-Design' has only 39 stars, below the 100-star threshold for points.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Most recent public GitHub push was approximately 296 days ago (about 10 months).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)CouchOne and Couchbase had co-founders, including J. Chris Anderson and others.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified npm maintainer of the 'noise-search' package.
What you likely need
You built CouchDB and took Couchbase public, but your current IC role at PlanetScale means your technical authority is underutilized in the founder and investor community. The Festival events most valuable to you are small, high-signal technical dinners where your distributed systems credibility translates directly into advisory deal flow, speaking opportunities, and a sharper sense of whether your current work is building toward something bigger. Getting you in the same room as infrastructure founders, database investors, and conference organizers is the fastest path to amplifying your brand and clarifying your next move.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- positioningA dinner for founders and staff engineers obsessed with MySQL internals and connection handling at scale — where you can road-test the ThrustDB and thread_pool_hybrid narratives before writing them up for HN or QCon
- introsA roundtable of database and infrastructure startup founders actively seeking technical advisors or board members, curated specifically around your NoSQL and distributed systems credibility from CouchDB and Couchbase
- fundraisingA dinner with post-IPO infrastructure founders who have navigated the Couchbase-style journey from open-source project to public company, to pressure-test whether ThrustDB or a database tooling gap is worth founding around
- tacticalAn HN 'Show HN' build-in-public happy hour for infrastructure and dev-tools engineers who have launched open-source projects, to workshop how to push thread_pool_hybrid past the 100-star threshold with a coordinated HN and MySQL internals forum drop
- positioningA dinner with QCon and Strange Loop program committee members and returning speakers to get you back on the conference circuit with a talk on MySQL connection handling and scale lessons from PlanetScale
- wellbeingA candid roundtable for senior ICs and staff engineers at companies like AWS, PlanetScale, and Cloudflare who are weighing whether to stay technical or step back into a founder or advisory role, anchored around long-term creative satisfaction
- fundraisingAn office hours session with seed and Series A investors who have backed database and infrastructure companies — Neon, PlanetScale, Turso — to explore whether your ThrustDB work signals a fundable gap in the market