Eric Herman worked on MySQL at MySQL AB and Sun Microsystems from 2004 through 2009, then joined Booking.com in 2010 as a developer working on database scaling. Nominated by Booking.com, he joined the MariaDB Foundation board of directors in 2015 and was elected its chair in 2016. As a community member he has contributed to the Perl MySQL client driver, the Perl interpreter, and other free software, and he has since worked as a codebase steward at the Foundation for Public Code.
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