Jeremy Cole

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Professional Bio (long)

Jeremy Cole is a long-time MySQL Geek and a pioneer of MySQL scalability. Jeremy started his MySQL adventure in 2000, as the fourteenth employee of a fledgling Swedish database company MySQL AB. During more than four years there, he worked on documentation, development, support, and managing the training and consulting organization. After MySQL, Jeremy coined the “MySQL Geek” title at Yahoo!, and then went on to found and run Proven Scaling providing advanced MySQL consulting. After consulting for several years, Jeremy joined Twitter and ran the DBA team there for more than three years, then went on to spend four years working on MySQL and Cloud SQL at Google. Following Google, Jeremy spent a year on a personally-funded sabbatical working on personal projects and volunteering with and mentoring FIRST Tech Challenge middle- and high-school robotics teams. Jeremy spent about five years as Sr. Staff Production Engineer and Principal Engineer in the Database Platform team at Shopify.

Professional Bio (short)

Jeremy Cole is a pioneer of MySQL scalability having worked on MySQL for 19 years at MySQL AB, Yahoo!, Proven Scaling (providing advanced MySQL consulting), Twitter, Google, and Shopify.

More details

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