Michael "Monty" Widenius

Creator and original developer of MySQL.
Open source advocate with first hand experience in creating and enhancing an open source community
Software architect and designer with experience in creating big complex applications alone and with a virtual team
Database expert, especially with MySQL :)

Specialties

Server architecture, Understands complex software design

Board member

Web of Trust by Against Intuition Inc.

2009 – Present (4 years)

Founder

Open Database Alliance

April 2009 – Present (4 years 3 months)

CEO & VP Community

Monty Program Ab

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry

February 2009 – Present (4 years 5 months)

Developing Maria, a transactional storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB, community developed MySQL server with Maria included

Chairman

ODBA

2009 – Present (4 years)

Board of Advisors

Finsor

May 2008 – Present (5 years 2 months)

Working on their Advisory board to help them make sound technical decissions

Partner

Open Ocean Capital

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Investment Management industry

2008 – Present (5 years)

Board member

IT Mill Ltd

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry

September 2008 – 2010 (2 years)

Partner

Open Ocean Capital

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Investment Management industry

2008 – 2010 (2 years)

MySQL Fellow and Sun DE

Sun Microsystems

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry

March 2008 – January 2009 (11 months)

Working in Sun CTO Lab under Sun's CTO: Greg Papadopoulos

Working on the Maria Storage engine and trying to make Sun an even bigger player in the open source community

Sponsor

CAMBIA

June 2008 – June 2008 (1 month)

Economic sponsoring of Patent Lens to help them continue their hard and very important work in making Software Patents more searchable and understandable

Sponsor

Software Freedom Law Center

Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Law Practice industry

June 2008 – June 2008 (1 month)

Economic sponsoring of Software Freedom Law Center for their important work in protect and advance Free and Open Source Software and because Eben Moglen is such a nice person.

CTO

MySQL AB

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry

January 2000 – February 2008 (8 years 2 months)

Developing, Architecting and maintaining the MySQL server

Developer

Tranfor Data AB

1983 – 1995 (12 years)

Software Architect

TCX Datakonsult AB

January 1981 – December 1995 (15 years)

Coder, architect and user of UNIREG (The origin of MySQL).

MySQL
- January 1981 to Present
Team Members: Michael "Monty" Widenius
MariaDB
- February 2009 to Present
Team Members: Michael "Monty" Widenius

MariaDB is a replacement of MySQL that is developed together with the open source community.
MariaDB is the new M in LAMP.

Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan

1981 – 2012

Brobergska skolan

1972 – 1976

Websites:

Interests:

Programming, Cooking, Games (computer and board), investing into open source / community driven projects that may help change the world

Groups and Associations:

Honors and Awards:

First MySQL Fellow

Honor award at HP Linux forum 2008 for "Important work for the good of Linux" and for "working to keep the code open even when part of MySQL management has been of different opinion".

Several awards for MySQL

"Software entrepreneur of the year 2004 in Finland, by Ohjelmistoyrittäjät ry

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