Daniel Nichter

Daniel Nichter is a DBA with over 15 years of experience with MySQL. He started optimizing MySQL performance in 2004 while working in a data center. Soon after, he created HackMySQL.com to share information and tools about MySQL. Daniel is most knwn for the tools he published during his eight-year tenure at Percona, several of which remain the de-facto standard and in use at the largest tech companies in the world. He is also a MySQL Community Award winner, conference speaker, and wide-ranging open-source contributor. Daniel currently works as a platform engineer at Square, a fintech company with thousands of MySQL servers and hundreds of software engineers.