Justin Swanhart
LeapDB, CEOJustin Swanhart has over 20 years of experience working with database technologies. He is the author of WarpSQL, ShardQuery, Flexviews, and PHP-SQL-Parser. Currently the CEO of LeapDB, LLC, a company developing software as a service MySQL and MariaDB solutions for materialized views and streaming SQL queries, Justin was platform DBA at Yahoo!, a consultant, and trainer at Percona, a consultant at Proven Scaling, and a database engineer at Etsy, among other roles. Justin is a prolic speaker in the MySQL community, and a well known MySQL community member, who is known for strong opinions about topics, and who oers a no-nonsense view of the open source technology landscape.
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