George O. Lorch III
George joined the Percona development team in April 2012. George has over 25 years of experience in software support, development, architecture and project management. Prior to joining Percona, George was focused on Windows based enterprise application server development and network protocol classification and optimization with heavy doses of database schema design, architecture and tuning. Now he humbly serves Percona in the role of Director of Server Engineering - Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, and Percona XtraBackup.