Speaker - Daniel Black

Daniel got addicted to open source contributing with Gentoo Linux in its early days, and drifted around the open source savanna until landing a DBA job. Doing mostly DBA work but sideline of contributing MariaDB patches was hard to maintain, 7 years later he's at the MariaDB Foundation contributing full time and supporting related aspects of the software ecosystem. The board direction of openness, adoption and continuity enables Daniel to perform a lot of community engagement online, helping users out, and facilitating the innovation of MariaDB and its ecosystem. With other members of the Foundation he helps out with contributors making MariaDB code changes. When taking a break he most enjoys playing with his two dogs, Jovie and Zeus.