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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 is currently working as the Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS) for Percona, a leader in open source database software and services. He has over 15 years of experience in the open source industry including over 10 years of executive-level experience leading open source teams. Matt’s experience merges the technical and business aspects of the open source database experience with both a passion for hands on development and management and the leadership of building strong teams. During his time he has created or managed business units responsible for service delivery ( consulting, support, and managed services ), customer success, product management, marketing, and operations. He currently leads efforts around Percona’s OSPO, community, and developer relations efforts. He hosts the HOSS talks FOSS podcast, writes regularly, and shares his MySQL and PostgreSQL knowledge as often as possible.
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
Percona is a Silver sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find us in the Solutions Showcase to talk databases on Kubernetes — performance at scale, high availability, and what actually breaks when you run MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB in production clusters.
November 9-12, 2026
Percona is a Gold sponsor at PGConf Europe, October 20-23 in Valencia. We contribute to the PostgreSQL community year-round — this is where we catch up with contributors, operators, and the people running PostgreSQL in production.
October 20-23, 2026
