About the Technical Reviewers

Sven Sandberg leads the MySQL Replication Core subteam at Oracle. He has worked as a developer at MySQL for the last five years and has a PhD in computer science from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Luís Soares is a Senior Software Engineer and the MySQL Replication team lead at Oracle. His research interests include replication technologies, dependable systems, and high availability.

Before joining the MySQL team, he was both a postgraduate student and a researcher at the University of Minho, Portugal, where he designed and implemented group-based replication protocols. Before that, he worked for a Portuguese multinational company as a system analyst.

Geert J.M. Vanderkelen is a member of the MySQL Developer Team at Oracle. He is based in Germany and has worked for MySQL AB since April 2005. Before joining MySQL, he worked as a developer, DBA, and SysAdmin for various companies in Belgium and Germany. After working more than six years for the MySQL Support team, Geert is now part of the MySQL Utilities team and is the lead developer of MySQL Connector/Python.

Marco Tusa has run his own international practice for the past twenty-five years. His experience and expertise are in a wide variety of information technology and information management fields of application. He has been involved in research, development, analysis, database management, quality control, and project management. Learn more at his website: www.tusacentral.net.