Baron Schwartz

Baron is a prominent MySQL performance expert, community leader, speaker, author, and software engineer. After earning a degree in Computer Science and spending several years as a software engineer, Baron grew and led Percona's consulting team and practice to international prominence, then founded VividCortex to give developers and operations teams deep visibility into the behavior and performance of production database systems. Although he is most recognized for his MySQL expertise, Baron understands and appreciates many types of databases, and participates actively in several database communities as a speaker and advocate, as evidenced by his Oracle ACE award among others.