Conference Committee
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Shlomi NoachCTO , MakamConference ChairmanShlomi is CTO and principal developer at Makam, a BI service provider. He is an active MySQL community member, and an experienced consultant and instructor. He authors the common_schema, openark-kit & mycheckpoint open source tools, and blogs at http://openark.org. Shlomi is an Oracle ACE, Oracle Technologist of the Year: 2011, and the 2009 MySQL Community Member of the Year. -
Founder & CEO , EffectiveMySQL
Ronald has 23 years of professional RDBMS experience in MySQL, Oracle, and Ingres. His expertise covers MySQL, LAMP and cloud-based consulting in architecture, performance, scalability and business continuity. Ronald is a former employee of the MySQL Inc consulting team (06-08) and Oracle Corporation (96-99). He has currently published 4 books on MySQL, his most recent titles available from Oracle Press include Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL Statements, Effective MySQL: Backup & Recovery and Effective MySQL: Replication Techniques in Depth. -
CEO/Principal , PalominoDB
Laine Campbell has been working in production database infrastructures since 1999. She has led global teams of DBAs supporting infrastructures for some of the most active and well known e-commerce, online media and gaming companies in the last 13 years. Certified in ITIL, with a strong operations background, she believes in the importance of solid operations processes and a committed relationship with business and engineering teams in order to succeed. Laine started Palomino in 2007 and has spent the past 5 years focused on building a professional, proactive and passionate team of DBAs and Engineers for Palomino's clientele. Committed to open source technologies, as well as contributions to the non-profit sector, Laine is excited to be a continued part of Palomino's growth and the open-source RDBMS community. -
Chief Evangelist, MariaDB , Monty Program Ab
Colin Charles works at Monty Program Ab, on MariaDB. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's spoken at many conferences - linux.conf.au, The MySQL Conference & Expo, foss.in, to name a few. -
Sr. Systems Engineer , Google, Inc.
Jeremy is working on MySQL and related systems as a Sr. Systems Engineer in the SRE organization at Google. Jeremy was an early MySQL user, and an early employee of MySQL; later on, a community member, and an outside contributor. Prior to Google, Jeremy organized and led the MySQL Geeks that kept Yahoo! running, ran Proven Scaling consulting for dozens of companies, and built and led the DBA team at Twitter. -
Senior Systems Engineer , Hewlett Packard
Patrick Galbraith is a senior systems engineer at HP Cloud Services. He is the author or two recent books: “Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl” (Wiley) “Expert PHP and MySQL” (Wiley) In his “spare time”, he also maintains DBD::mysql, DBD::drizzle, FederatedX storage engine and the Memcached Functions for MySQL. He has just authored “Developing Web Applications using Perl, Memcached, MySQL, and Apache”. Patrick lives up in the sticks of New Hampshire with his wife Ruth and son Kiran, daughter Sara, as well as his Kubota tractor. -
Senior Performance Architect , Nokia
Henrik works as Senior Performance Architect at Nokia, where he is mostly interested in the performance of MySQL and Galera, but also other SQL and NoSQL databases. He previously worked as Chief Operating Officer at Monty Program and as a Sales Engineer at Sun Microsystems, selling MariaDB, MySQL and MySQL Cluster technologies while being closely in touch with their respective development teams. He is the author of the book "Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source (http://openlife.cc), fan of Open Source in general and contributor to Drupal in particular. Since 2010 Henrik co-organizes the MySQL Community Awards, a tradition which will again take place as part of the 2013 MySQL Conference and Expo (http://openlife.cc/blogs/2012/february/mysql-hall-fame). -
Consulting Lead , Percona
Jay Janssen started using MySQL over 10 years ago, but honed his skills during 7 years at Yahoo as a High Availability Consultant specializing in MySQL. He joined Percona in 2011 and is a Consulting Lead there specializing in Percona XtraDB Cluster and High Availability architectures. He tweets at @jayjanssen -
QA Director , Continuent, Inc
QA Director at Continuent I am active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast. During the past 25 years I have worked in various IT related fields, with focus on databases, object oriented programming, system administration. Fluent in Italian, English, Perl, Python, SQL, Lua, C, Bash, and good speaker of C , French, Spanish, Java. I work in cyberspace, with a virtual team. -
Database Engineer , Facebook
Domas is a member of Facebook database performance team. In past he volunteered for Wikipedia and worked at Sun Microsystems and MySQL. -
CTO , SkySQL Ab
With 25 years of experience in computer science and IT, Ivan started his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, following his passion for the kernel of the PdP 11 machines, RSX and later with VAX/VMS Macro programming. Entrepreneur since 1988, he set up and managed several IT startups and subsidiaries in Europe. He has been an independent journalist and author of technical books for 15 years. Since the early 90s, Ivan has been Chief Technical Architect and Chief Technical Officer for non IT companies in sectors like telco, manufacturing and retail. Ivan joined MySQL in 2005 and led the European Pre-Sales team for the Software Infrastructure Group at Sun Microsystems. At SkySQL, he is responsible for the vision of the company and the evolution of new database solutions and services. A native of Italy, Ivan has lived in Windsor, UK since 2000.
