- Jeremy Zawodny
Jeremy Zawodny is currently an employee of Yahoo! in the platform engineering group. He has been described as "Yahoo!'s MySQL guru". He maintains a popular weblog focused on Yahoo! initiatives, which is listed in CNET News.com's index of the 100 best technology-related blogs. According to CNET, Zawodny has "helped put MySQL and other open-source technologies to use".
- Luke Welling
Luke Welling is a PHP and MySQL expert, author, and conference speaker who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He was a one-time instructor at RMIT University.
- David Axmark
David Axmark is one of the founders of MySQL AB and a developer of the Free Software database server, MySQL.
- Michael Widenius
Ulf Michael Widenius, born March 3, 1962 in Helsinki, Finland is the main author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database and a founding member of the MySQL AB company. After studying at (although not graduating from) the Helsinki University of Technology, Widenius started working for Tapio Laakso Oy in 1981. In 1985 he founded TCX DataKonsult AB (a Swedish data warehousing company) with Allan Larsson.
- Doug Cutting
Doug Cutting is an advocate and creator of open-source search technology. He originated the Lucene and, with Mike Cafarella, the Nutch open-source search technology projects, which are now managed through the Apache Software Foundation. Prior to developing Lucene, Doug held search technology positions at Excite and Xerox PARC. Lucene, a search indexer, and Nutch, a spider or crawler, are the two key components of an open-source general search platform, …
- Jim Starkey
Jim Starkey is a database architect who developed InterBase, the first relational database to support multi-versioning, event alerts, arrays and triggers. He founded the web application development and database tool company Netfrastructure. Prior to Netfrastructure's acquisition by MySQL AB, he was an active member of the open source Firebird database server project. Currently he is working on Falcon - a new transactional database engine for MySQL.
- Dave Miller
Dave Miller (born 1972) is an American software developer best known for his work on the Bugzilla bug tracking tool developed at Mozilla.Org. He voluntarily assumed the role of maintainer after the previous maintainer, Tara Hernandez, stepped down. He is currently employed by the Mozilla Corporation. Owing in part to his Bugzilla development experience, Dave is an expert in Perl as well as in databases, including MySQL.
- Florian Müller
Florian Müller is an author, entrepreneur, consultant, and the founder of the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign.
- Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, and an activist for open standards. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference.
- Batara Kesuma
Batara Kesuma is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of mixi, a Japanese social networking site. He was born 1979 in Indonesia. He was graduated from Engineering division of Takushoku University. He proposed mixi in December 2003, and was responsible for creating the corporation. He is a well known for advocating the use of the open source LAMP stack, Perl, MySQL and the Apache Webserver.
- Mårten Gustaf Mickos
Mårten Gustaf Mickos is chief executive officer of MySQL AB. He has served as chief executive officer since January 2001. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Mickos was CEO at MatchON Sports. Mickos has a Master's degree in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland.
- Robyn Flach
Web designer/developer working in HTML, CSS, PHP, MySql, Flash, javascript, and utilizing the Adobe CS4 suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, on both Mac and Windows platforms. Experience in graphic, interior, and costume design. Extensive experience in general and operations management in the home and office furnishings industry.
- Pierre Bastoul
Pierre Bastoul is captain @ odyssee la web agence (o10c), a small company in France that makes websites since 1997. See more on http://www.lawebagence.com
- Michael Tabolsky
Vincent: What happens after that?Lance: I'm kinda curious about that myself.
- Julian Rapp
Hi to the world :) My name is Julian Rapp. I'm 21 and I live in Seckach, a town in south of Germany. I love to meet my friends, drink cocktails, go to partys and love my computer. I am a programmer and spend much of my time trying to find new technological developments and innovations. I search a job opportunity in my environment. I study computer science and will be one better guy in this world. :D
- Gamaliel Espinoza Macedo
Me encantan las computadoras. Soy programador y como ven me gusta contribuir haciendo crecer la comunidad de Spock.
- Steve Purkiss
Entrepreneur, Visionary, Serial Networker, Open Source Advocate, Drupal developer
- Jeremiah Poisson
PHP Developer and Indie Game Developer Based in FL.
- Laura Thomson
Laura Thomson is a Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla Corporation. She was formerly a Principal at OmniTI, a consultancy specializing in scalable internet systems design and development. Laura is from Australia and has more than ten years experience in web development, IT consulting, and research. She is the co-author of the best-selling "PHP and MySQL Web Development" (Sams Publishing) and "MySQL Tutorial" (MySQL Press), and has spoken at many conferences worldwide.
- Eduardo Marson
- Marco Cecconi
I have been a software developer in Fullsix, through its various incarnations, since 1998. I develop complex applications for corporate customers. I follow projects end-to-end: - I write technical offers to prospect customers (basic system design, effort and cost estimation); - I gather the requirements and write the brief; - I assemble, manage and asses the development team; - I do software design and development; - I guarantee project delivery and follow up; - I develop the customers . . .
- Lenz Grimmer
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 Relations 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. Prior to working for MySQL, Lenz was an engineer in the distribution development team of SuSE Linux in Nuremberg for four years.
- Arjen Lentz
Arjen Lentz is community relations manager at MySQL AB, frequently speaking at conferences, and hanging out with MySQL users anywhere. In addition, he teaches MySQL training courses in Australia and New Zealand. Previously, Lentz worked in the MySQL Documentation team.
- Jeremy Cole
- Tijs Teulings
- Xavier Bessouat
- Kenny Berzes
- Patrick Galbraith
Patrick Galbraith , who has been involved with open source projects for the past twelve years, is a senior systems engineer at MySQL. His primary focus is MySQL Federated Storage Handler, DBD::mysql enhancements, as well as working on other MySQL storage engine projects. Galbraith's languages are mainly C/C++ and Perl.
- Brian Aker
Brian Aker , Director of Architecture, MySQL
- Eric Axelrod
Pharmacy benefits management is my specialty. I am currently the Senior Data Analyst / Pharmacy Auditor for Global Pharmaceutical Solutions. Some of the products I have successfully developed include a state-of-the art pharmacy benefits reporting system and various medicare part d administration tools. I am also the architect of our cutting edge pharmacy benefits management database.
- Dan Zappone
I'm anti-entropic, radically-skeptic, and generally optimistic. I dislike stupidty - mine and others. I do not believe anything.
- Tiziano Fogliata
- Stewart Mercer
25 years of international (UK,USA,Australia,Scandinavia) experience in the IT and Telecoms business - everything from punching cards for Mainframes, Programming DEC/VAXes, founding and running my own ISP, working for two VERY large telcos in their IP/Internet divisions and I am now Head of Systems Engineering (OSS/BSS/etc) for PacketExchange, which provides International MPLS network services (WAN Peering and Internet Bypass), using . . .
- Dossy Shiobara
Built e-commerce websites using Vignette, built a ETL process for web reporting using AOLserver, along with various sundry little web projects. I'm currently leading the AOLserver open source project, having a great time hacking on open source software for a living. I'm always interested in meeting others who share similar passions.
- Matt Mullenweg
Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas) is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. He is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress and writes a popular blog Photo Matt. After quitting his job at CNET, he has devoted the majority of his time to developing a number of open source projects and is a frequent speaker at conferences.
- Cory Collier
You Are Guinness.
- Monty Taylor
Ik ben een beetje verkerd. Ik will graag een koffie verkered. I do NOT want any soy products anywhere near my latte. Ich heisse Monty und ich bin sechszehn-jarhe alt. Yo no soy marinaro. Soy capitan. Soy capitan!!! Bailar me!
- Frank Flynn
Frank Flynn is a database architect and developer at Spock. He specialilzes in MySQL programming. He enjoys reading, traveling, and listening to music. His favorite artists include Pac, Dre, and Run; 2 Live Crew when he's feeling retro for the '80's.
- Rasmus Mencke
- Jay Pipes
Jay Pipes MySQL AB Jay is the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL. 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.