Jean-François Gagné

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ABOUT JEAN-FRANÇOIS GAGNÉ

If you are interested in my posts, hit the Follow button (not the Connect button).To future connections: I do not accept blank requests from people I do not know, so please explain why you want to connect.Jean-François is a System / Infrastructure Engineer with 23 years of professional experience (12 with MySQL). He currently works as a MySQL Open Source Developer in Aiven’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO). Before that, J-F scaled the MySQL and MariaDB infrastructure at HubSpot, MessageBird and Booking.com, and he was involved in other projects related to systems, storage, network and security. He is also the maintainer of Planet for the MySQL Community: a news aggregator for the MySQL Ecosystem. JF is a MySQL Rockstar (2024) and recipient of a MySQL Community Contributor Award (2018). Before being involved with MySQL, he worked as a System / Network / Storage Administrator in a Linux and VMWare environment, as an Architect for a Mobile Telco Service Provider, and as a C & Java Programmer in an IT Service Company. Even before that, while learning computer science, Jeff studied Cache and Memory Consistency in Distributed Systems and Network Group Communication Protocols (yes, the same as Group Replication)-== Specialties ==-MySQL and variants, including MariaDB and Percona Server.Distributed Systems and Networks, especially Linux Web platforms.Java, C, Web and Parallel programming and optimization (this is from a previous life).And I write most of my scripting in Bash.