Shlomi is an engineer and a database geek. He is an active MySQL community member, authors orchestrator, gh-ost, common_schema and other open source tools, and blogs at http://openark.org. Shlomi works at GitHub on the database infrastructure team keeping the data flowing. Previously he managed high availability of X,000 of MySQL servers at Booking.com, and prior to that solved infrastructure problems at Outbrain. He is recipient of MySQL Community Member of the Year, Oracle ACE, and Oracle Technologist of the Year awards.