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MySQL Rockstars 2024 Awards!

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MySQL Rockstars A MySQL Rockstar award is a recognition given by the MySQL Community Team at Oracle and by previous winners to some members of the MySQL community who have contributed to the promotion of MySQL throughout the past year. As started last year, we will aslo reward a MySQL Legend. Legends are remarkable members of the MySQL community who have made a signi cant and positive impact on the adoption, development and evolution of MySQL. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 3

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MySQL Rockstars A MySQL Rockstar award is a recognition given by the MySQL Community Team at Oracle and by previous winners to some members of the MySQL community who have contributed to the promotion of MySQL throughout the past year. As started last year, we will aslo reward a MySQL Legend. Legends are remarkable members of the MySQL community who have made a signi cant and positive impact on the adoption, development and evolution of MySQL. The MySQL Community Team stays in touch with the MySQL Rockstars and Oracle ACEs for MySQL during the year for feedback on the product and collaboration around MySQL events. Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 3

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Laurynas Biveinis MySQL Rockstar 2024 Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 4

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Laurynas Biveinis is a notable gure in the MySQL ecosystem, particularly known for his contributions to performance optimization, bug xing, and codebase improvements. Laurynas is one of the most proli c contributor of MySQL (84 in 8.0) He is recognized for his in-depth technical expertise, particularly in areas related to storage engines, especially InnoDB and MyRocks. He's also the author of a MySQL development post series: h ps://of-code.blogspot.com/ Laurynas Biveinis Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 5

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René Cannaò MySQL Rockstar 2024 Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 7

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René Cannaò is a well-known gure in the MySQL ecosystem, particularly known as the author of ProxySQL. He's a very active member of the Community and always willing to help others and share his knowledge over slack and social media. René has been presenting at many MySQL events includiong Percona Live, OpenWorld, FOSDEM and MySQL Days. René Cannaò Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 8

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Sinisa Milivojevic MySQL Rockstar 2024 Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9

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Sinisa was employee #2 in MySQL AB, worked and continue to work at MySQL Support in Oracle. His knowledge and passion to ght for MySQL quality is exceptional. Valerii Kravchuk wrote the following line about Sinisa in his blog: "He was one of MySQL people who in uenced me a lot and I tried to play "be er Sinisa" for a couple of years at my current job." His in uence on MySQL is invaluable. He worked on countless bugs and helped many customers to solve their issues always with the same rigor and passion. Sinisa Milivojevic Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10

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Jean-François Gagné MySQL Rockstar 2024 Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 12

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JFG constantly publishes technical blog posts for the MySQL community. He has been active in the community and has a ended events like FOSDEM and Percona Live for years. He has been very active in bugs and regressions for MySQL's bene t. Jean-François also maintains the h ps://planet.oursqlcommunity.org/ He recently submi ed contributions to MySQL too. JFG is a respected database engineer and expert in high-availability systems, MySQL, and large-scale database infrastructure. Jean-François Gagné Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 13

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Matt Lord MySQL Rockstar 2024 Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 14

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Ma Lord is a well-regarded expert in database technologies, especially known for his work with MySQL and involvement in the broader database community. He has contributed to various database design, optimization, and implementation aspects, frequently sharing insights and best practices with developers and database administrators. Ma 's a hidden hero in the MySQL ecosystem. where he played an important role as Product Manager. With his vast experience and knowledge, he's been educating, informative, and helpful to all community members. Ma Lord Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 15

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Legends MySQL Rockstar Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 17

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Shlomi Noach MySQL Legend 2024 Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 18

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Shlomi Noach is a prominent gure in the open-source database community. He is best known for his work on MySQL and speci cally for creating and maintaining Orchestrator, a MySQL high-availability and replication management tool. Schlomi also worked on GH-OST. Shlomi often shares his knowledge through blog posts, amazing presentations, and collaborations with other database professionals, focusing on database reliability, scalability, and automation. He has extensive database infrastructure experience and contributed to various MySQL and open-source projects. Shlomi Noach Copyright @ 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 19