I have joined Percona
Effective April 1, I will join Percona full-time as a consultant. I’ll be helping people build high-performance applications with MySQL, but I’ll also be continuing to develop and improve tools such as Maatkit.
This career change has been a long time in progress. I’m really looking forward to it, but at the same time it’s hard to leave my current employer, The Rimm-Kaufman Group (RKG). Working with them has been the best job I’ve ever had. But ultimately, my dream job is to help as many people as I can, and consulting will be a better way to do that.
At a time like this, I like to reflect on the trail that has led here. It’s a good opportunity to realize how fortunate I really am and fill up my gratitude tank. So I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me reach this point. All the people who have encouraged me, sponsored me, suggested new options… all kinds of help. A special thanks to my wife Lynn, to Alan Rimm-Kaufman and all my colleagues at RKG, to the many fine people at MySQL, and to the MySQL community as a whole. My deep gratitude to all of you. I look forward to working with you even more in the future.
Further Reading:
So I get to be the first to congratulate you. yeah :)
Seriously, I think this is going to be a great move. It’s hard leaving a place you really love, but growth requires change sometimes.
See you soon!
Keith Murphy
26 Mar 08 at 2:55 pm
Wow, that’s quite a move. I’m sure both you and Peter are thrilled! Congratulations.
Artem Russakovskii
26 Mar 08 at 3:05 pm
Hey Baron! Congratulations on your new job!
Colin Charles
26 Mar 08 at 3:22 pm
Congratulations, Baron! And all the best for the new job. There certainly is a lot of work waiting for you out there :)
LenZ
26 Mar 08 at 3:39 pm
Hello Baron,
Congratulations!
If I had known that you were in the market, I would have tried harder to get you!
Cheers
Giuseppe
Giuseppe Maxia
26 Mar 08 at 4:07 pm
As others before me have hinted, Congratulations.
As I know we have talked previously of evaluating career paths, I can only say work with PZ and Percona can only help your excellent tools and the MySQL Community in a positive way and I look forward to a continued crossing of paths.
More big news for the MySQL UC2008. Well done!
Regards
Ronald
Ronald Bradford
26 Mar 08 at 5:26 pm
Hi Baron,
wow! that’s some news ;-)
Well, what can I say ;-)
First of all, allow me to wish good luck and prosperity in your new career. I’m sure that working closely with Peter et al. is going to be a great and worth wile experience.
Second, I’m curious whether your tools development will get more or less focus. I would assume more so, but that’s just me guessing.
Anyway, godspeed ;)
PS: the captcha, “Three is the number you shall type” seems be faulty. I type the digit 3 but apparently that is not expected. Surely, the digit 3 qualifies better as “The number three” than the string “three”, no?
Roland Bouman
26 Mar 08 at 5:39 pm
Roland, I clarified it.
If you REALLY mean to congratulate me…
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/778d/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/97f0/
See you at the conference :-)
PS I think I’ll probably have more time to work on Maatkit. But that remains to be completely decided.
Xaprb
26 Mar 08 at 5:57 pm
Sign me up for another $500 if you can help package your tools in a fool-proof self-healing replication solution :)
Basic idea/thoughts here…
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4840565
Congrats on the new position too.
mike
26 Mar 08 at 6:21 pm
Wonderful.
Mark Callaghan
26 Mar 08 at 6:44 pm
Congratulations, Baron! You do great work, I’m sure that you’ll find good challenges in your new job, too.
Carsten Pedersen
27 Mar 08 at 1:07 am
Congrats Baron, and good luck!
David Shrewsbury
28 Mar 08 at 2:19 pm
Congratulations, Baron!
This must be very exciting news for Percona. You’re definitely one of the strongest community members. Like Ronald, I look forward to seeing you and your very helpful tools excel further.
Frank
Frank Mashraqi
28 Mar 08 at 4:26 pm
Congratz Baron!
Dathan Vance Pattishall
28 Mar 08 at 5:21 pm
Best of luck, Baron.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy great success, but if anything doesn’t work out or if you change your mind, the door is always open, we’d welcome you back heartily.
Glad you’re staying in town, and can still be part of the extended friends-of-RKG community.
Best wishes
Alan
Alan Rimm-Kaufman
30 Mar 08 at 7:14 am