Brian Aker

Brian Aker is the Director of Technology for MySQL. At MySQL he helps set
direction for technology and looks for opportunies to harness and shape the
MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and Telephony. In his copious amounts of free time he works on
Apache and Perl modules, libmemcached, and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System (hence
never has a working home phone number). In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer
Corps, The Virtual Hospital, Splunk, Grazr, and Slashdot. He lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd.