Brian Aker is the Director of Technology for MySQL. At MySQL he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunies to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and Telephony. In his copious amounts of free time he works on Apache and Perl modules, and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System (hence never has a working home phone number). In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The Virtual Hospital, Splunk, and Slashdot. He lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd.

Andrew is the author of Sphinx, an open-source full-text search engine designed especially for indexing databases.

John has worked in systems operations for over ten years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Friendster.com and Flickr.com, where he currently manages the Operations Engineering group.

Kaj Arnö is VP Community at MySQL AB. He promotes the 3 Ps of the MySQL Community: Popularity, Participation and Pioneering—connecting the external and internal MySQL developers with each other. Kaj believes there are internal connections between his favourite topics which include arranging meetings in a virtual organisation, coping with timezones, managing cross-cultural teams and singing drinking songs (a practice of his native Finland that he is promoting with varied success in Munich, Germany where he’s currently living).

Tobias is working his fifth year with MySQL, and has done more than a hundred training classes and consulting engagements. Between customer engagements he tries to find ways to use old features in new exciting ways with MySQL.

Mark Atwood has been a fan, proponent, and user of Open Source software from back when the only two big projects were gcc and emacs.

He is currently part of MySQL Inc Professional Services, specializing in Storage Engines and other server extensions.

He lives in Seattle with his two cats.

Joe Audette is the founder and primary developer of mojoPortal, a cross platform, cross database open source content management system written in C#-ASP.NET. He has been developing web applications since 1997 and has been involved in a wide variety of projects ranging from ecommerce to call center support systems and content management. In 2003 his interest in Linux reached critical mass as the Mono project made it possible to develop and deploy ASP.NET on Linux. In 2004 he launched the mojoPortal project and released the first version which could run on Mono and use MySql for the database. After several years of working on mojoPortal in his spare time, Joe formed Source Tree Solutions, LLC in 2006 and now works on mojoPortal and mojoPortal related customer projects full time.

Igor joined MySQL in 2002 after several years of work at Raima/Centura on different SQL processors. In 2003 he headed a group of developers focusing on optimizer problems. Igor is the author of pipeline implementation for nested outer joins. He also has implemented a full set of optimizations based on equality predicates.

Jess Balint is a MySQL developer on the Connectors team. He spends most of his time bug hunting or hacking on the ODBC drivers.

Andy Bang is the founder of the team that designed and developed the MySQL Enterprise Monitor (code name Merlin). He built the team, wrote the initial specs after conducting extensive customer research, helped develop each release, and has authored most of the rules that power the advisor aspects of the system. Andy lives in the Bay Area and works for MySQL.

Pierre Baudracco, 12 years of experience in the Open Source, is the founder and CEO of AliaSource IT services company created in 1997. He is the main developer and maintainer of the Open Source project OBM since 1998 (Messaging, Groupware, Directory, CRM). Now CTO at LINAGORA

Jacek Becla works with different scientific communities ranging from high energy physics, through astronomy to photon science, helping them use database technology for managing and analyzing their massive data sets. He was one of the key people that designed and built world’s largest database for BaBar, and he now leads the design of the 100 petabyte LSST database. He is actively trying to bridge the gap between science and industry. In 2007 he organized a successful workshop on Extremely Large Databases to stimulate collaboration between scientific and industrial users, database vendors and academia.

Dr. Charles A. Bell conducts research in emerging technologies. He works for MySQL AB as a senior software developer on the replication team assisting the development of online backup features. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University where he teaches graduate-level computer science courses.

Eric has been working with MySQL professionally for over 8 years. After working as a DBA and operations engineer for Yahoo! he moved on to form Proven Scaling LLC with Jeremy Cole. He has a background in monitoring and scaling large LAMP deployments.

Sebastian Bergmann is a long-time contributor to various PHP projects, including PHP itself. He is the developer of PHPUnit and offers consulting, training, and coaching services to help enterprises improve the quality assurance process for their PHP-based software projects.

Ask Bjørn Hansen is a software developer and consultant focused on Perl, MySQL, Apache, Linux and other open source technologies. He has worked with Perl for more than ten years and with MySQL since the year it was released, building large and small systems serving thousands of requests per second.

He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been building and managing much of the perl.org community infrastructure since 1999. Currently he’s working as the CTO of Solfo, Inc developing YellowBot

He lives in a little house on a hill in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and their pets.

James is currently a system administrator responsible for UC Berkeley’s campus email system. He uses MySQL cluster to unify a range of free software systems into a cohesive platform.

Patrick Bolduan is a developer working on broadband media and community services for web and mobile platforms for MTV Networks Japan. His past affiliations include Sonicnet.com (New York), MTV Networks (New York), NTT Communications, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, the Advanced Software Technology & Mechatronics Research Institute of Kyoto, and Kyoto University.

I studied Molecular Biology, but I’m professionally occupied as a Training Course Curriculum Developer for MySQL AB. Before that, I have been Certification Developer for MySQL AB and prior to that I.T. Consultant/Information Analyst/Developer.

Ronald is a Senior Consultant with MySQL Inc based in the US. Ronald brings 9 years of MySQL experience with 19 years experience in RDBMS products, enterprise data architecture, large systems development and Internet Web technologies.

Reggie Burnett has over nineteen years experience in software development including areas such as 80×86 assembly language, Windows kernel level services, and 3GL and 4GL applications. Burnett specializes in .NET and Windows applications and is currently the architect and maintainer of MySQL Connector/Net.

Founder/CTO of Tailrank

Mark is the lead for the MySQL Engineering team at Google that supports a large MySQL deployment. He has more than 12 years of database internals experience at Informix, Oracle and now Google. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His team maintains a large MySQL patch at code.google.com . His blog is at mysqlha.blogspot.com.

Tyler Carlton has worked in the telecommunications industry for seven years architecting high availability, real-time systems for a large market research company and QDial Inc.

Tyler was presented the challenge of restructuring the existing infrastructure to allow for growth, and scalability – given only 3 months to do so. Using MySQL clustering, it was a success.

Dr. Joseph Chamdani is an accomplished technologist. Prior to founding Kickfire, he was co-founder, Chief Systems Architect, and VP Systems Integration at Sanera Systems, which was later acquired by McDATA. At Sanera and McDATA, Joe led the architecture design for the high-end switching systems and fabric-based storage virtualization and services using hardware acceleration. Before Sanera, he was the lead architect for Sun Microsystems’ UltraSPARC IIIplus and UltraSPARC IV microprocessors for their high-end SMP servers, with a focus on improving database performance. He received his Ph.D from Georgia Tech and currently holds 28 issued patents in domains relating to computer architecture, microprocessors, compilers, networking, storage, and circuit design.

Colin Charles is the Community Relations Manager, APAC at MySQL AB. He lives in Melbourne, Australia and has been with MySQL since 2005. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He currently spends a lot of his time making community-based projects happy using the MySQL database.

Richard Chart is co-founder of ScienceLogic, LLC – developers of the EM7 IT Management meta-appliance which is changing the face of IT service delivery for many enterprises, service providers and government entities.

In a little over four years since founding ScienceLogic, Chart has worn a wide range of hats, from developer to support manager to interior decorator, while enjoying the thrills and spills that come with being part of a successful boot-strap start-up.

Prior to ScienceLogic, Chart held engineering management roles with major service providers in Australia and the USA.

Luojia Chen is a software engineer in Sun’s ISV Engineering organization, in the open source team. She is currently responsible for MySQL adoption and migration for Sun’s latest technologies including DTrace, and she is focused on making MySQL run and scale well on the Solaris platform.

Raj Cherabuddi is CEO, President, and co-Founder of Kickfire. A seasoned executive, he is experienced in both the startup and corporate worlds. Prior to Kickfire, Cherabuddi was the founding CEO of Sanera Systems, a startup that focused on mission-critical, high-performance SAN switches. Sanera was successfully acquired by McDATA Corporation, an $800M public company now part of Brocade. At McDATA, Cherabuddi served as the corporate CTO for nearly two years, where he advised on strategy and was responsible for future technologies.

Before co-founding Sanera Systems, he served as lead architect at Sun.

Jeremy Cole is MySQL Geek and co-founder at Proven Scaling LLC, where he consults on architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, and availability.

Britt Crawford is a software engineer at Cafepress.com and a contributor to the HiveDB project. He helped to create and deploy a Cafepress’s HiveDB and MySQL clusters and now is now hard at work on the next version of HiveDB.

Antony Curtis is an advocate of Open Source software and long-time user of alternative operating systems, originally became involved with MySQL in 1998 by porting it to OS/2 and has used MySQL as a means to interface with legacy systems. He has joined MySQL in 2003 as a Senior Software Developer.

Tom Daly is a senior performance engineer in Sun’s ISV Engineering organisation. Based in Adelaide Australia Tom has been working with independent software vendors and open source communities to improve java and database performance specifically performance of the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) application platform used in conjunction with open source datasbases. Tom is a member of the team that has created the industry standard J2EE performance benchmark SPECjAppServer (www.spec.org) and is Sun’s representative the the SPEC osgjava subcommittee.

Mariella Di Giacomo is a member of scalable database team at The Hive. Her interests include distributed database systems, cluster computing and large-IO systems. She received her Laurea degree in computer science from the University of Pisa, Italy. Prior to joining The Hive she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Alcatel.

I am a leading PostgreSQL Contributor and hold the responsibility of PostgreSQL SPI Liaison. Also on the resume is current President of The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. The largest, oldest and only dedicated PostgreSQL company in North America.

Beyond PostgreSQL my FOSS efforts include being a Director at Software in the Public Interest (of which PostgreSQL.Org is affiliated).

Working with Infobright Inc. since early 2006, Victoria brings over 20 years of experience in software development. A graduate of University of Waterloo, her particular skills include program and project management, including architecture, for complex endeavours. Her technological and business vision drives leading-edge, executable, and profitable solutions.

Victoria’s professional experience spans all aspects of software development and include data warehouses, web based applications, security and financial systems to name a few. She has established a track record for turning cutting-edge ideas into technological reality. In her capacity as a consultant, Victoria has worked with Bell, BCE Emergis, RBC Dominion Securities, CIBC, and Nesbitt Burns.

At several clients, Victoria’s responsibility covered delivery of the primary release of new software services for security and also web based bill presentment in conjunction with defining the product release map, strategy, and feature set. She lead teams comprised of developers, architects, infrastructure technicians, security officers, quality assurance professionals, technical writers and support and implementation teams to successful on time and high quality delivery. She continues to educate and mentor teams in best of breed development practices.

Of note is Victoria’s role as the director of professional services for a start-up data warehouse tool vendor during a time when the practice of warehousing was very much in its infancy. She was also instrumental in launching a charity organization, Kids.Now which delivers life skills to pre-teenage kids. She is a member of the Kids.Now board of directors.

Rick Falkvinge is the founder and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party, as well as the founder of the international politicized pirate movement. His leadership and vision took the Pirate Party from nothing into the top ten parties in the last Swedish general election, without a dime in the campaign chest. His personal candidacy came in at rank #15 out of over 5,000 candidates for the 349 parliamentary seats.

While he didn’t win one of those seats due to threshold rules, the Swedish Pirate Party has inspired similar parties to form in over 20 other countries, and the fight for civil liberties against copyright and patent aggression continues.

The primary focus of Rick and of the Pirate Party is to fight back against the current copyright aggression and surveillance populism using the one thing lobbyists can never buy – votes in a democratic election. Rick demonstrates how much more than business models are at stake in the copyright debate – today’s copyright and essential civil liberties have become mutually exclusive, and society must choose.

Rick Falkvinge lives in Stockholm, Sweden. When not engaged in the fight for privacy and citizens’ rights, he can usually be found cooking, reading, or riding a motorcycle.

Prof. Farach-Colton is an expert in algorithmics and information retrieval. He was an early employee at Google and is a Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. Martin Farach-Colton co-founded Tokutek in 2006 in order to commercialize his research on storage systems.

Paul Fisher is a principal email systems administrator and manager of the central campus collaboration tools group at UC Berkeley.

Seth is a whitewater kayaker and Rails hacker in Yahoo!’s Brickhouse group.

Mary is a senior enterprise software professional with broad experience in product marketing, product management, and technical communications. Prior to establishing Ten Pages, Mary’s product marketing consultancy, she worked at SupportSoft, Brio Technology, and Claris. Mary has written numerous white papers and articles for Ten Pages clients, and is increasingly active in the JasperSoft community.

Mary holds a Bachelor or Arts degree from Wellesley College.

Jeff Freund, Clickability, Inc. Chief Technology Officer & Founder

Jeff designed and deployed the first and only pure-play SaaS platform for the entire web content lifecycle, from content creation to optimization. His work to launch the flagship Clickabilty cmPublish platform in 2003 has advanced and his team’s solutions will be serving over 200 million pages per month by end of 2007. In addition to the platform’s core content management and publishing capabilities, Jeff has overseen the launch of Clickability’s comprehensive suite of publishing modules, which include an ad server, newsletter services, reports, polls and surveys, and search capabilities.

With over 10 years of software and Internet experience, Jeff’s earlier posts include Western U.S. head of technology for Network Software Associates, a provider of legacy-to-web host connectivity products for enterprise customers. He collaborated on Linux cluster supercomputer projects at UCLA. Jeff received his BS and MS in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University.

As a Product Manager, Mike Frost leads the strategic marketing efforts for a variety of DataDirect Technologies data access technologies. He has more than 7 years of experience working with enterprise data connectivity and is currently involved in the development of data connectivity components including ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and XML.

Ian is currently senior director of product management at JasperSoft Corporation. He is responsible for product strategy and roadmap, market and competitive analysis, and product marketing for all of JasperSoft’s on-premise and on-demand products including the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite products and Jasper4Salesforce.

Ian has deep Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and CRM experience gained at PeopleSoft, Pivotal, Epiphany, Informix, and Business Objects. Prior to that, he co-founded the Intelligent Office Company, a pioneering Business Intelligence startup.

Ian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems Design from Kingston University London in the United Kingdom.

Patrick Galbraith, who has been involved with open source projects for the past fifteen years, is a senior software engineer at Grazr Corp. He is responsible for database architecture and applications at Grazr. He previously worked for three years at MySQL Inc. as a senior systems engineer. In his spare time, he also develops various projects including FederatedX/Federated ODBC Storage Engine, DBD::mysql, Memcached Functions for MySQL, libmemcached, as well as working to provide wireless broadband for rural New Hampshire residents.

I’m working in MySQL AB since 2000. Worked in almost every part of the server. To list a few projects – fulltext search, XA, HANDLER, precision math library, parallel repair and bulk inserts in MyISAM, indexes in MERGE. A primary architect of the plugin API. These days I also spend a lot of time doing code and architecture reviews for bug fixes and new features.

Derek Gottfrid is a Senior Software Architect at The New York Times. He has been involved in building many key parts of the nytimes.com infrastructure, including search, web serving, e-mail distribution, and platform development. Derek has led efforts to improve the use of open source software within the Times and is responsible for the open source project dbslayer —a database connection pooling server. He also blogs regularly about his open source work at open.nytimes.com.

Lenz Grimmer is a member of the community relations team at MySQL AB. He lives in Hamburg, Germany and has worked for MySQL since April, 2002. Before joining the community team in December 2005, he was a member of the release engineering team that is in charge of creating the official release builds of the MySQL server and related products. Prior to working for MySQL AB, he was a developer at the distribution engineering team at SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany.

Jimmy Guerrero currently coordinates MySQL’s Web 2.0 and SaaS marketing programs. He joined MySQL in 2005 as the product manager for MySQL Cluster and other MySQL high availability technologies. Prior to joining MySQL he held various sales and technical positions at Idera Software and Embarcadero Technologies. He currently resides in Houston, Texas.

Bruce Guptill is Managing Director for Saugatuck Technology, responsible for research strategy and publication. A 20+year veteran of IT and telecom management, business, marketing and research, Bruce is expert in the business of open source software, software as a service, and utility IT.

During the dot-com era, Bruce served as vice-president of marketing at Tallán, Inc., a $100 million custom development and e-business services firm in Glastonbury, CT, where he directed advertising, marketing, communications, and vendor partnerships.

Bruce joined Tallán after several years as vice president and research director at Gartner, Inc., where he developed and managed research, advisory and consulting services on e-commerce and IT business strategies, partnerships and alliances, and the business value of IT investments. Bruce began consulting as a senior associate with TeleChoice, Inc., developing carrier channel strategies and telecom hardware vendor strategies. Bruce’s industry research experience developed as an editor and writer with NetworkWorld and other IDG publications. Prior to that, he served in marketing, research, and editorial management for business computing VARs. Bruce holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance, and a BA in applied psychology/mass media business.

Florian is an expert in high availability clustering, not limited to databases, but also including virtualization, file services, and more. His blog is an interesting read.

Tom Hanlon is currently a senior instructor at MySQL and has been teaching MySQL and assorted FOSS topics such as Apache, PHP , and Linux for since 2001. In addition I have been building and maintaining MySQL based applications since the MySQL 3.2 era.

A visionary in web applications and open source software, Dick Hardt has been active in technology development for over two decades. His most recent venture, Sxip Identity, is the leader in Identity 2.0, creating simple, secure, and open solutions for the next generation of internet identity. Sxip provides on-demand identity management for the enterprise and user-centric solutions that securely automate the exchange of identity data online. Prior to Sxip, Dick founded ActiveState in 1997. Under his leadership as CEO, ActiveState became a leader in tools for open source programming languages and in anti-spam software and was acquired by UK-based security company, Sophos in 2003. As a successful entrepreneur and technology expert, Dick is very involved in the community, he is co-author of the OpenID 2.0 specification and holds a board position with the OpenID Foundation.

I’ve been spending a lot of my time recently working on large scale systems. High availability, automatic/seemless process failover, high speed network shared memory (using multicast), database replication, multi-homed and multi-master syncing, and clustering.

I’ve worked on lots of stuff, including but not limited to: the Linux kernel, small (a portable c-like scripting language), XFree86 (now branched off to be called x.org or some such nonsense), GNOME, the Gimp, a bunch of image processing libraries, file management, disk notification, plug and play monitor support, AGP gart acceleration, and of course the Enlightement Window Manager.

I’ve also worked on speech synthesis, speech recognition, computer vision systems, large scale AI systems – mainly deriving a new type of neural network based off of 6 dimensional matrix modelling, speech to speech translation systems (English <> Arabic, English <> Pashto), workflow management systems for large multi-user development processes, speech annotation software, source revision control systems for speech annotation, and other general audio and image processing software.

Ann Harrison is theorist-in-residence for the Falcon. Ann has been a co-conspirator for any number of database products including DEC’s PDP-11 database system, InterBase Software, and the Firebird open source database. When she can find the time, she sails and flies a small plane.

Eric Herman implemented proof-of-concept “judf” for using MySQL existing user defined functions interface for loading and executing Java functions, and is a developer of database-backed Java applications. He joined MySQL in 2004 and works on the Enterprise Tools team.

Phil Hildebrand has been working with a wide variety of platforms including MySQL, Oracle, Informix, and SQLServer since 1989.

Early in his career Phil was a UNIX systems programmer writing lexical analyzers for phone book pagination systems, which lead him into database design and development.

Currently Phil focuses on scaling VLDB systems on both UNIX and Windows operating systems in production environments.

Joseph Hill has been an active participant in the Mono community since 2003, and has also been an active contributor to several open source ASP.NET applications. As a professional developer, he has done significant work in design and implementation of .NET applications for a number of customers, including Fortune 50 companies in areas such as messaging solutions, SCM, and others. In January 2008, Joseph joined Novell to serve as the Product Manager for Mono.

Mike Hillyer has been involved with the MySQL community for over six years, two of those spent as a Technical Writer for MySQL AB. He’s spoken at every MySQL User Conference since the first conference in 2003, on subjects ranging from VB6 development with MySQL to Managing Data Hierarchies.

Until recently he was a resident MySQL Expert for Techtarget’s SearchOpenSource.com site.

He is one of the top ranked MySQL experts at Experts-Exchange, a site for providing advice to fellow developers.

He currently works as an Engineer for Message Systems, a division of OmniTI Computer Consulting.

Kenji Hirohama is a senior consultant and has worked with Sumisho Computer Systems Corp. for 10 years. After returning from the overseas assignment at the U.S. office, he has focused on MySQL technologies in depth. He is specialized in MySQL HA solution, such as MySQL Cluster, replication, and LifeKeeper with MySQL.

When he is not skiing in Lake Tahoe or playing cards with friends from church, Mike Ho is working at Quasidea Development, an idea incubator. He has over 8 years of software development and IT consulting experience, with a client list that includes NASA, Stanford University, Microsoft and Lockheed Martin. His past work includes working on the original Microsoft ASP.NET Starter Kits, and currently he is the lead developer of the Qcodo Development Framework for PHP. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Northwestern University…Go Cats!

Robert Hodges is CTO of Continent, Inc., a leading provider of clustering solutions for open source databases. He has over 25 years of experience in database and application development. Robert has worked on cutting edge software for DBMS vendors, including reliable messaging, development tools, and object-relational databases. He has also built and operated enterprise web applications that support thousands of users.

Hartmut studied electric engineering and computer sciense with biology as a sub topic in Germany. He has been part of the PHP development and documentation team since late 1999.

He joined the MySQL support team in 2004 and is now a principal support engineer with a focus on MySQL Cluster.

Chris Hondl was responsible for application scalability and availability of the IMVU web site during much of the past two years. Prior to joining IMVU, Hondl led the development of AlterCast, Adobe Systems’s first server software product, and co-founded Sandcastle, Inc., which was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1997.

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing counsultant to the CPG industry.

Bruce Huang has been with HP’s Enterprise Storage and Systems organization since 2004 focused on open source and Linux quality assurance and engineering. He has led the testing, integration and documentation of the HP Open Source Middleware Stacks since 2007.

Julian Hyde is Pentaho’s Chief Architect for OLAP, and the founder and lead for the Mondrian OLAP project. He has nearly fifteen years experience in data warehousing, having served as a senior engineer at Oracle in the kernel group, as well as founding Broadbase software.

Over 26 years at Oracle, in a variety of technical, marketing and managerial roles. Currently responsible for the InnoDB group, which produces the fastest, most reliable and proven transactional storage engine for the open source MySQL database.

Dmitri Joukovski is the Vice President of Product Management at Zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery. Dmitri has been solving backup and recovery challenges since the early ‘90s working for startups and large companies such as Legato and EMC. He wrote multiple articles and contributed to several books about backup and recovery published by O’Reilly. Dmitri lives in Silicon Valley, CA with his beautiful wife and two children.

Ritu Kamboj is a Staff Engineer in ISV Engineering’s Open Source Team at Sun Microsystems. She has over 12 years of experience in software development with expertise on database design, performance and high availability. She has worked extensively on Sybase, Oracle and MySQL databases. Recently her focus has primarily been on making MySQL run best on Solaris platform.

Chander is the CEO and founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the “Top 20 Linux Luminaries” by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where he did research work in Database Management Systems) and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Bill Karwin has been a software developer and technical writer since 1988. He is widely known for his talent for explaining complex topics and practical techniques with accuracy and a little humor. Recently he worked as the Product Engineering Manager developing the award-winning Zend Framework library for PHP 5.

Alan Kasindorf is the MySQL DBA for Six Apart’s properties, as well as many of their scaling tools. Originally a sysadmin for livejournal.com in 2002, he has since helped build numerous large web sites with open source software and is an advocate and contributor for Memcached, mogilefs, perlbal, and others.

Chris Kasten was the principal architect and engineer for eBay’s custom Java data access layer framework for over 5 years, which now processes over 45 billion database transactions per day for eBay’s website. He has 9 patents pending relating to data access layer, caching, and security technologies. He currently leads the eBay Kernel Data Access Layer Framework team, which architects, designs and develops technology solutions for eBay’s demanding data access and caching needs. Prior to eBay, Mr. Kasten was a consultant for IBM Software Group, as well as an independent consultant for several years, working in the telecom and aerospace industries.

Sean Kelly has hand his hands in the guts of many a start-up in SF and as far back as Ft Lauderdale for Galacticomm prior to the widespread adoption of the Internet.

He was the IT Director and an Oracle DBA for StarMine a San Francisco financial data analytics company recently acquired by Reuters. He also acted as MySQL DBA for financial start-up Cake Financial.

He lives and works in San Francisco for a tiny subsidiary of eBay, riding large piles of MySQL data for stumbleupon.com.

Mats Kindahl is a lead software engineer of the MySQL replication team. He is the main architect and implementor of MySQL’s row-based replication, but has also developed the unit testing framework used by MySQL. In the time before starting at MySQL, he has worked with research in formal methods, program analysis, distributed systems, and as developer of C/C++ compilers.

Mr. Kitaeff leads all of the firm’s sales and marketing efforts, with focus on client and software vendor contract negotiations, and roll-out of new services and initiatives. Mr. Kitaeff has participated on the panels, “Software-As-A-Service: Legal Considerations and Real World Stories”, sponsored by the NY Software Industry Association Legal Forum and “A Primer on Service Provider Licensing: Can It Work for You?”, a part of the Advanced Software Law and Practice Forum. Before joining Logicworks in 1998, Mr. Kitaeff founded and managed Incite, a wholesale apparel company where he was involved in all operational aspects of the company with a focus on Sales and Marketing functions. Prior to founding Incite, Mr. Kitaeff, worked as a hotel and real estate appraiser for a boutique consulting firm. Mr. Kitaeff attended Rutgers University and holds a Master of Science degree from New York University in Hospitality Studies.

Jan Kneschke works for MySQL as Senior Software Developer in the Enterprise Tools team and maintains the MySQL Proxy and the agent component of MySQL Enterprise Monitor.

His favourite programming language is Lua as you can see in the

• MySQL Proxy,
• lighttpd and
• the wormhole Storage Engine.

Vladimir Kolesnikov joined MySQL AB in April 2005 and is now working in the MySQL Developer Tools team. He participates in the design and the development of the graphical MySQL tools including the MySQL Administrator and MySQL Workbench. Besides his work in the Dev. Tools team Vladimir also develops RitmarkFS – a prototype of a filesystem storage engine for MySQL server, and QOT – a query and index optimization tool for MySQL server.

Mike is a Boston based technology entrepreneur and currently co-founder and CTO of Grazr Corporation. A WPI grad in Electrical Engineering, Mike spent 7 years in the Advanced R&D labs of Data General and then EMC corporation before leaving to found a startup.

Mike is knowledgeable in web software, general computer architecture, intelligent storage architectures, software design, hardware design as well as highly scalable parallel processing systems and distributed architectures.

Mike was granted patents (through EMC) on an advanced data storage device and caching techniques.

Sheeri K. Cabral has a master’s degree in computer science specializing in databases from Brandeis University. She has background as a systems administrator; has worked with Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Solaris, RedHat/Fedora, AIX, and HP-UX. Unstoppable as a volunteer and activist since age 14, Cabral founded and organizes the Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MySQL User group, and produces OurSQL: The MySQL Database Podcast for the Community, by the Community. Keep up with all this at www.technocation.org

Charles Lee is co-founder and vice-president of engineering of Hyperic. Prior to co-founding Hyperic, Lee was a senior software engineer at Covalent. There, he built Covalent’s configuration management product for Apache (CMP), and he spearheaded and architected the application management software (CAM). Before Covalent, Lee developed a document management system for retail store build-outs based on open-source technology at WiseConnect. Lee also held senior engineering position at Hewlett-Packard, where he was instrumental in developing print drivers for network LaserJets for the Asian market, as well as developing the UI framework used for LaserJets for all markets. Lee also developed the first GUI printer configuration framework for AutoCAD while a senior engineer at Autodesk. Lee was an early engineer at Backflip, where he created the document publishing system for the website based on mod_perl.

Lee received his BS in Computer Science and BA in Chemistry with honors from the University of Washington.

Mark Leith is a Support Manager, for the Americas region, within MySQL AB.

Mark has worked in the database industry for many years, working with MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server databases in the past.

Arjen initially started with programming, but has since branched out to other stuff that blends geekness with more human interaction.

Arjen was employee #25 at MySQL AB (2001-2007), dealing with Documentation, Community Relations, Training, Support, licensing, and acting as program chair for the 2005 and 2006 MySQL Users Conferences. He also co-authored the 2nd edition of O’Reilly’s popular “High Performance MySQL” book.

After taking time off in mid 2007 Arjen founded Open Query, delivering affordable remote and on-site MySQL consulting, as well as MySQL training days.

Outside work Arjen dabbles in organic gardening and explores the RepRap.

Nathan Letwory is a Dutch Blender developer, who has been living in Finland since 1997. Nathan joined the Blender developers in 2003. He has worked on different areas of Blender, such as the Visual Studio projectfiles, texture IPOs, SCons build system integration, Verse support, PyNodes and DbBlender. In 2005-2006 Nathan participated as a remote support developer for the Elephants Dream open movie project. As a professional software developer Nathan works with C#/.NET, SQL and relational databases and with DVB middleware in the past. Nathan likes to use C, Python, Lua, C# and other languages and tools for his programming needs. Nathan works now integration of MySQL in Blender in an attempt to enable large datasets and simplify collaboration in open source CG built on a solid basis for data storage and retrieval provided by MySQL. When Nathan is not sitting behind his computer, he loves to spend time with his wife and son.

Kevin Lewis is the Falcon Team Lead and has been working with Jim and Ann to integrate Falcon into MySQL for nearly two years. Before that, Kevin worked for 10 years as a Lead Developer for the Pervasive.SQL Microkernel, which is the storage engine for Pervasive’s Btrieve and SQL products.

K-T is helping to design and build extremely large databases and data management systems for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Linac Coherent Light Source projects. Previously, he spent more than seven years building extremely large databases, data management systems, and data mining applications at Yahoo!, Inc.

Sigurd has been living and breathing the internet since 1995 when the City Council of Wellington, New Zealand provided the region’s only internet service; then entirely text-based and only 2400 baud. Add a grandma who taught him C before he got to high school, and the rest all makes sense.

In 2000, he co-founded SilverStripe with two friends, which has since made hundreds of websites and web-applications. Sig’s focus is now on building up the community around their open source platform for building websites and webapps, SilverStripe CMS.

The SilverStripe open source project was launched in early 2007 and in a matter of months, Sigurd rapidly attracted community and credibility to the project. He got the project involved in the Google Summer of Code program (where Google paid for ten programmers to add features), solicited tens of thousands of downloads, and built up a loyal community of who have voted to rank SilverStripe a finalist in the global Open Source CMS awards, beating many years-established projects.

Aside from his beautiful partner and daughter, Siggy loves adventure: snowboarding, turning up in a foreign city, reading books in the sun, and being conned into dancing Salsa for the Cuba Street carnival.

Farhan “Frank” Mashraqi, Fotolog’s Director of Database Infrastructure, is responsible for all aspects of MySQL database administration and data architecture including disaster recovery, performance tuning, database scalability, data mining and schema optimization. Frank has helped design a database architecture to meet Fotolog’s explosive traffic growth. This enabled Fotolog to grow from five million members to 11 million members today, with the same number of database servers. Today Fotolog is a top 20 destination (traffic-wise) on the Internet according to Alexa.

Yoshinori Matsunobu is a Senior Consultant at MySQL, mainly engaging into consulting services in Japan and Asian countries. He have written five MySQL books, having broad-ranging MySQL technical experties, especially DBA, performance tuning, high availability, i18n and MySQL Cluster.

Mark Matthews is the maintainer of MySQL’s JDBC driver, and is an architect for the enterprise tools team.

Giuseppe Maxia is the MySQL community team lead.

A system analyst with 20 years of IT experience, he has worked as a database consultant and designer for several years.

He is a frequent speaker at open source events and he’s the author of many articles.

He lives in Sardinia (Italy).

Jeremy has been developing applications with Ruby and Rails for a little over two years, but before that he tortured himself with PHP, C#, Python, VB, and other instruments of destruction. After finding the light, he worked with Ruby for a while and penned Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book (soon to be published by No Starch). Since then he has continued writing software, books (such as Ruby in Practice for Manning), open-source code (such as dcov, radiograph, valimaticotron, pircy, and more), presentations for numerous Ruby conferences and user groups, and basically done anything he can to sharpen his Ruby (and Rails)-Fu. He likes good food, good times, and a mean game of Mario Hoops 3-on-3.

Justin McCarthy manages a team of developers focused on improving the way people sell through Cafepress.com. He is a founding member of the HiveDB project, and was the primary advocate for committing full-time Cafepress.com engineers to the open source HiveDB effort.

Paul McCullagh is cofounder of SNAP Innovation GmbH, Germany, where he is responsible for core technology. He has 17 years experience in the development of database and internet related systems. Paul has a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town where he specialized in operating system design and implementation.

Paul is the developer of the PBXT transactional storage engine for MySQL (www.primebase.com/xt). Most recently his work has included the development of the BLOB streaming engine for MySQL (www.blobstreaming.org).

Jeffrey McManus develops and runs the online document collaboration site Approver.com, which uses .NET and MySQL. He also runs the consultancy Platform Associates which provides strategic and tactical advice to businesses creating and managing platform products. Previously, he co-founded and led Yahoo’s Developer Network and was responsible for the release of tools such as Y!UI and BBAuth. Prior to that, he formed and led eBay’s Platform Evangelism team.

Carl Mercier is a serial technology entrepreneur and developer from Montreal, Canada. He is currently the founder and CEO of Karabunga Inc., the company behind Defensio.com, a new spam filtering web service for social applications. Defensio has attracted significant interest from worldwide blogger and developer communities and has exhibited superior filtering performance. Carl also spearheads Montreal on Rails, a developer community group that brings together local Ruby on Rails enthusiasts for monthly gatherings. Prior to founding Karabunga, Carl started Adonis Technologies, a company that built advanced management software for the tourism & recreation industry. It was acquired in 2006. Carl holds degrees in business management and sound engineering.

Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, brings a strong track record of leadership in global high-tech companies to MySQL. Prior to joining MySQL in 2001, Mickos was CEO at MatchON Sports, which he grew to become the twenty-fourth “hottest e-business” in Europe within nine months of its inception. Previously, Mickos was CEO at Intellitel Communications, where he was instrumental in transitioning the company from a development lab to a commercial software vendor. He has also directed worldwide sales efforts at several technology companies.

Brian Miezejewski is a Principal consultant for MySQL with over 25 years of database and software development experience. His experience includes Director of Data Architecture & Systems at travelweb.com and Senior Principal Architect for the American Airlines Enterprise data warehouse. He has led the development of multiple data warehouses over 4TB in size.

Domas Mituzas is Wikipedia performance engineer/developer and database administrator, as well as full-time support engineer at MySQL. He is also member of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

Brian Moon has been working with the LAMP platform since before it was called LAMP. He is a programmer and systems administrator for dealnews.com. He has made a few small contributions to the PHP project and been a casual participant in discussions on the PHP internals list. He is the founder and lead developer of the Phorum project, the first PHP/MySQL message board ever created.

Jonathan has been developing database driven application frameworks for over ten years. His work has been primarily based in perl, python, php and java. In the last decade he has been lead architect on six different frameworks that encompass applications ranging from social networks to educational simulators.

Alexander Nozdrin is a software developer at MySQL AB. He has been working for the company since 2005 as a runtime team member. Alexander works mainly on standard-compliance aspects of stored programs, character set support and the client server protocol.

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Sergey Petrunia is a member of MySQL Query Optimizer team. He has implemented query optimizer features like index_merge access, partition pruning, semi-join subquery optimizations, and numerous smaller improvements.

Lisa Phillips is Director of Operations for Six Apart. She has worked with Six Apart for 3 years and on Livejournal.com for 5 years. In her 8 years experience as a Systems Administrator with high traffic, large and complex internet services Lisa has found she is more interested in hearing and talking about real experiences over theoretical possibilities. In her spare time Lisa enjoys playing competitive, amateur roller derby.

Jay Pipes is the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL. Co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress, 2005), Jay has also written articles for Linux Magazine and regularly assists software developers in identifying how to make the most effective use of MySQL. He has given sessions on performance tuning at the MySQL Users Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, OSCON, and Ohio LinuxFest, amongst others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Julie, and his four animals. In his abundant free time, when not being pestered by his two needy cats and two noisy dogs, he daydreams in PHP code and ponders the ramifications of __clone().

Markus Popp is an Austrian web developer who concentrates on database related applications and primarily uses MySQL. In summer of 2005, he started the db4free.net project which provides free MySQL databases using the latest production and development versions. He writes about his experiences with MySQL in his weblog, tries to help other people on MySQL related newsgroups and has filed several bug reports for MySQL 5.

In May 2006, Markus joined the MySQL Web Team as a Web Developer.

Ed is Senior Director of Database Engineering at Ticketmaster, Inc. and the chief database architect. Ed’s major responsibilities include designing, implementing, and supporting the databases for www.ticketmaster.com (one of the largest e-commerce sites on the web). He began his database career almost 20 years ago working with IBM’s DB2/MVS and has since branched into MySQL and Oracle.

Philipp Reisner graduated from the Vienna University of Technology in computer science in 2000. Since November 2001 he has been MD at LINBIT, a provider of professional Linux services with a strong focus on high availability clustering. In the context of open source software, his most outstanding achievement is DRBD.

Eric Ries is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including _The Black Art of Java Game Programming_ (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. In 2007, BusinessWeek.com named Ries one of the Tech’s Best Young Entrepreneurs. He serves on the Advisory Board of many technology startups, including pbWiki, Sonicswap, Bunchball, Freepledge and Marin Software.

Ben is the Director of Systems at Joyent, Inc where we cator to the unique needs of redshift Web 2.0 customers who require maximum flexibility and scalability. He is a member of the OpenSolaris Governing Board, long time Solaris zealot, and runs a popular blog at cuddletech.com/blog.

Ph.D in Technical Information Systems. Founder of MySQL Cluster technology. Developer of MySQL Partitioning. Currently working on MySQL Architecture.

Jeff Rothschild is Vice President of Technology at Facebook, where he focuses on scalability and performance. Prior to Facebook, Jeff focused on storage management and Internet services as an investor and entrepreneur. He previously co-founded Veritas Software, where he was responsible for product strategy and architecture. Jeff also co-founded Mpath Interactive/Hearme, the Internet multiplayer games and voice chat service, where he served as Vice President of Engineering. He is also a consulting partner with Accel Partners and during his tenure has worked with Walmart.com, Rhapsody Networks and Mendocino Software. Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and master’s degree in computer science from Vanderbilt University.

Over the past decade, Mr. Rowell has held senior management positions with leading hosting, telecommunications, and Internet services companies. He has extensive experience building, operating, and managing complex global IT infrastructure systems that are able to scale to meet dynamic business requirements.

Prior to co-founding OpSource, Mr. Rowell led a team of over 500 people as Vice President of Operations for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for the delivery of managed services and the operation of the MFN data centers in the Americas, supporting leading enterprise customers including BP Amoco, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Paramount, and Sony. He joined MFN through the acquisition of SiteSmith, where he was Vice President of Operations.

Before joining SiteSmith, Mr. Rowell was Director of Enterprise Services for UUNET Technologies, where he led the team responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing support of large-scale enterprise environments in an outsourced model. Clients included AutoNation, Disney, The Go Network, Levi Strauss, Marriott International, mySap.com, Sony Playstation, and Symantec.

Mr. Rowell holds a B.S. from the University of Alabama and attended the masters program for engineering management at George Washington University.

Alexander Rubin is a Senior Consultant at MySQL AB. Alexander has over 7 years industry experience with the MySQL database, and specializes in performance tuning, full text search, high availability and the scale-out of database infrastructures.

Ann is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Zmanda. Prior to Zmanda, Ann was the Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Sybase where she successfully spearheaded the company’s strategy and go-to-market focus in enterprise mobility and business intelligence. In the late 1990’s, Ann was a part of the core team at Billpoint that pioneered online person-to-person payments, enabling anyone to buy, sell and pay other efficiently. The company was later acquired by eBay Inc. in 1999. As Vice President of Strategy at The Content Group, Ann drove many early implementations that enabled media companies to digitize, archive, index, search, distribute and monetize their media assets over the Web. Ann started her career at Hewlett-Packard where she held various management positions in engineering, product management, marketing and business development. Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in business from the University of Florida.

Einar Rustad has background as CPU architect in Norsk Data and Director of Processor Architecture in ACRI, France. He was a founder of Scali and has been working with high performance cluster solutions over the last 10 years. His special interests include the impact of latency on performance in modern architectures with deep storage hierarchies and shared memory multi-core processors.

Tangirala Sarma is a leading Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing specialist who combines understanding of information technology with extensive business understanding and information-based decision making methodologies. As a DW/BI practitioner, Tangirala helps enterprises identify, justify, implement and leverage leading edge technology environments to create and/or improve analytical capabilities. Tangirala has led implementation of several complex and scaleable multi terabyte data warehouses with companies in the financial services, telecommunications, retail, publishing and hospitality industries.

Sarma is an established writer and has authored several white papers on churn management, rapid migration technology and DW/BI technologies.

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