Starting life as a Microsoft SQL Server DBA, Andrew swiftly changed lanes to the open source world and pursued as much knowledge on open source database management systems as he could fit in his cranium, occupying a seat at Nokia, Pythian, Percona, DigitalOcean, and offering his mercenary services to establishments large and small across the globe. Andrew takes great delight in testing features, maximizing uptime, and keeping abreast of the community activity in the MySQL-ecosystem..