My name is Andrew Hutchings but I am known to many as ‘LinuxJedi’. I live in the UK with my wife and two children but am often travelling abroad for meetings and conferences. I currently consult for the MariaDB Foundation as their Chief Contributions Officer.

In my spare time I like to hack useful code onto several open source projects and restoring 80s and 90s wedge style home computers. You can also find more about me in my LinkedIn page.

I have previously worked in the following roles:

• An environment monitoring company as an embedded microcontroller developer
• A hosting company designing/installing/supporting Linux servers
• The First Post / Dennis Publishing as a Technical Architect
• Sun Microsystems / Oracle as a MySQL Senior Technical Support Engineer
• Rackspace as a Software Developer on the Drizzle Project
• SkySQL as a Senior Sustaining Engineer
• A lead developer at HP Helion Public Cloud
• Principal Software Engineer for HP’s Advanced Technology Group
• Senior Developer Advocate for NGINX Inc.
• Technical Product Manager for NGINX Inc.
• Lead Software Engineer / Manager for MariaDB
• Senior Staff Software Engineer for Equinix Metal
• Software Engineer for wolfSSL

I have been a conference speaker at the many events and I am also a co-author of a book called MySQL 5.1 Plugins Development.

I am contactable via. my personal email address andrew@linuxjedi.co.uk and am on twitter as @LinuxJedi