I'm a Linux engineer, MySQL DBA, and Perl/PHP/Ruby developer working for Rackspace and Slicehost in San Antonio, Texas.

Meeting people and connecting them with solutions is what really motivates me. I've been called "a nerd who can actually communicate with people" before, and I think it fits me pretty well.

I'm the author of MySQLTuner (http://mysqltuner.com), a high-performance MySQL tuning script written in Perl. I also maintain http://pleskhacker.com, which is a repository of handy MySQL queries for the Plesk control panel. My main blog is at http://rackerhacker.com.

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