# About

> What QueryProxy is, why it exists, and who builds the self-hosted database access control portal.

- Updated: 2026-10-10
- Source: https://queryproxy.com/about/
- Language: en-US
- Author: Muhammet Şafak

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## What it is

**QueryProxy** is a self-hosted database access control and query approval portal,
released as open source under the AGPL-3.0 license.

## The problem it solves

It exists because of a tension every engineering team knows: developers need
production data to do their jobs, and handing out production credentials is how
incidents happen. QueryProxy resolves that tension with a workflow instead of a
password — developers submit SQL through a guarded editor, DBAs approve or reject
from the web or straight from Slack and Teams, and approved queries run
asynchronously with results that come back limited, masked and fully audited.

It is built for small and mid-sized engineering teams, DevOps engineers and DBAs
who want the control of a database gateway without the operational weight of one:
a single Laravel application, a zero-config `docker run`, and no external
services required.

## Status and maturity

QueryProxy is at version 0.2.x. It is under active development and still at an
early stage: features and behaviour may change between releases. Evaluate it
carefully before you use it in production.

## License and source code

- Source code: [github.com/QueryProxy/QueryProxy](https://github.com/QueryProxy/QueryProxy)
- License: [AGPL-3.0](https://github.com/QueryProxy/QueryProxy/blob/main/LICENSE) —
  if you run a modified QueryProxy as a network service, you must publish your
  modifications under the same license.
- Security reports: see the
  [security policy](https://github.com/QueryProxy/QueryProxy/blob/main/SECURITY.md)
  for private disclosure.

QueryProxy is created and maintained by
[Muhammet Şafak](https://github.com/muhammetsafak). Contributions are welcome —
the contributing guide lives in the repository. For anything else, write to
[info@queryproxy.com](mailto:info@queryproxy.com).

## This website

This site is the project's home: the introduction, the documentation and the
blog. It is a static site.

## About Tignex

Tignex is an independent open-source engineering organization that builds tools, infrastructure, protocols and standards for developers and software teams. Its aim is software that gives developers more control, takes interoperability seriously, avoids unnecessary vendor lock-in and can be self-hosted. Projects published under Tignex keep their own names, identities and domains; Tignex is the engineering organization they share.

[tignex.com](https://tignex.com)

## About the founder

Muhammet Şafak is the founder of Tignex — a software engineer, system architect and engineering researcher who has been building software since 2008. Today he works on the architecture, scalability and reliability of high-traffic distributed systems. He publishes independent research that examines system behaviour through reproducible measurements, and chooses technology by the problem rather than the language. In the rest of his time he builds open-source tools and infrastructure software under Tignex.

[muhammetsafak.com](https://muhammetsafak.com)