I build world-class database tools and teams that stand the test of time. My work and contributions have been used by millions for decades. But I’d rather be offline chopping firewood. Life is funny like that.

• 34 years computer programming
  • C, C++, PHP, Perl, Go
• 20 years hacking MySQL
  • Efficient MySQL Performance (O’Reilly, 2021)
  • Conference presentations
  • hackmysql.com
  • MySQL Server contributor (#113699)
  • Go MySQL driver contributor (#389, #390, #610)
• 9 years at Block (Square) - L8 Principal Engineer
• 8 years at Percona - MySQL tool developer
• 4 companies
  • Polite Menu - $1 digital signage
  • mlrd 🦆 - DynamoDB-compatible API on MySQL/Postgres
  • Test Noir - Perl testing SaaS (CI/CD)
  • DELTA Tech - Computer repair and consulting
• 2 degrees
  • Masters in French
  • Bachelors in Philosophy
• 0 social media
• A lifetime of open source
  • go-helcim - Unofficial Go Client for Helcim API
  • dt - Short DynamoDB types
  • dui - TUI for DynamoDB
  • blip - Best MySQL metric collector and monitor ever written
  • finch - Declarative SQL benchmarking tool
  • go-cmd - Execute processes from Go
  • go-metrics - Clean, simple gauges, counters, and percentiles
  • go-mysql - Various Go pkgs for MySQL
  • go-test/deep - Human-readable deep variable equality for Go tests
  • rce-agent - Secure remote code execution
  • spincycle - Task orchestration at scale
  • etre - Labeled entity catalog
  • PMM v1 - Percona Monitoring & Management
  • Percona Toolkit - Most popular MySQL tools in the world
  • Hack MySQL tools - mysqlreport, mysqlsla, mysqlsniffer, etc.