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Join the HOSS (Percona’s Head of Open Source Strategy) as he talks all things open-source with long time open source engineer Lenz Grimmer. Lenz has a long history of working on open source projects including Suse, MySQL, Ceph, and others. We talk about how we both got started in the open-source business, how people can contribute, and some of the cool things he has been up to.
Lenz Grimmer supports and leads the engineering teams at Percona that work on server products like Percona Server for MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and related components. He’s been involved in Linux and Open Source technologies in various roles and capacities since the mid-90s and has worked at companies like SUSE, MySQL, Sun Microsystems and Oracle.
Matt Yonkovit was Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS) at Percona. He has over 15 years in open source, including more than 10 years leading teams. That mix covers both the technical and business side of open source databases: hands-on work, management, and building teams. At Percona he ran or helped run service delivery (consulting, support, managed services), customer success, product management, marketing, and operations, and later OSPO, community, and developer relations. He hosted the HOSS talks FOSS podcast and writes about MySQL and PostgreSQL.
NDC London 2027 takes place 2027-01-25 – 2027-01-29 in London.
January 25, 2027
Percona is a Bronze sponsor at AWS re:Invent, November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. We’ll be on the Expo floor with the cloud community — talking open source databases, performance tuning, and data infrastructure that holds up in AWS production environments.
November 30-December 4, 2026
DevOpsCon Munich 2026 takes place 2026-11-30 – 2026-12-04 in Munich.
November 30, 2026
