Russ Kochevar

Russ Kochevar is a Principal Solutions Engineer at SingleStore, focusing on modernizing customer data layers with the SingleStore database platform. With extensive experience spanning over three decades, Kochevar has held key roles at Nextworld, where responsibilities included cloud infrastructure engineering for a SaaS ERP platform, and Empower Retirement, where leadership included strategic decision-making in ITS database services. Prior roles include senior management positions at Great-West Financial, where Kochevar contributed to executive decisions, and earlier hands-on positions in database administration and programming at Quris Inc. and Oracle. Kochevar holds a Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Wyoming.