About us
Signal18 builds Replication Manager, open-source high availability software for MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL, and runs Cloud18, a database cloud built with infrastructure partners.
From an open-source project to a database cloud
Ten years of high availability for MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL.
2015
Replication Manager
The first lines of Replication Manager, open-source high availability for MySQL and MariaDB.
2017
SIGNAL 18 SARL
The company is founded to develop Replication Manager and support its users.
2019
SIGNAL18 CLOUD SAS
SIGNAL18 CLOUD SAS, Paris, becomes the operating company and builds Cloud18, a database cloud with infrastructure partners.
The team
Database people who have run production systems for many years.
Stéphane Varoqui
Co-founder, product architect
20 years of MySQL and MariaDB expertise (MySQL AB, Sun, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation), specialised in performance and high availability. He designs Replication Manager and the Cloud18 platform, and leads the product.
Guillaume Lefranc
Co-founder
Over 20 years of IT operations, from database consulting to running large private clouds. Creator of Replication Manager in 2015, he brings infrastructure and operations expertise.
Ahmad Faruk
Software engineer
A MariaDB production DBA turned Go software engineer. He works on Replication Manager (backup and restore, proxies, Kubernetes) and heads Signal18’s Indonesian entity.