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Quick Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stewart is a Principal Engineer at AWS working on Amazon Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, Stewart worked for IBM<\/a> in the Linux Technology Center<\/a> on OPAL, the OpenPOWER Abstraction Layer – open source firmware for POWER systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to IBM, Stewart worked for Percona as Director of Server Development with a deep background in database internals including MySQL, MySQL Cluster, Drizzle, InnoDB and HailDB. He was one of the founding core developers of the Drizzle database server project which he worked on at Sun Microsystems and later Rackspace. He started in the database world at MySQL AB working on MySQL Cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disclaimer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent any current or former employer’s positions, strategies or opinions. I do not speak for my current or previous employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stewart works for Amazon Web Services as a Principal Engineer on Amazon Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart previously worked for IBM<\/a> in the Linux Technology Center<\/a> on OPAL, the OpenPOWER Abstraction Layer – open source firmware for POWER systems. He’s help the position of Vice Chair of the Technical Steering Committee of the OpenPOWER Foundation and sat in several working groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, Stewart worked for Percona<\/a> as Director of Server Development with a deep background in database internals including MySQL<\/a>, MySQL Cluster<\/a>, Drizzle<\/a>, InnoDB and HailDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to joining Percona, Stewart worked at Rackspace<\/a> on the Drizzle database server<\/a> focusing on getting it through a critical milestone of a stable Generally Available (GA) release. Prior to Rackspace, he worked on Drizzle as a member of the CTO Labs group inside Sun Microsystems<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the founding core developers of the Drizzle<\/a> database server Stewart has deep expertise in the code base. He had direct involvement in significant refactoring of the database server including removing the FRM, the InnoDB storage engine, xtrabackup, the storage engine API, CATALOG support and countless bug fixes. He also maintains HailDB, a shared library offering a NoSQL C API directly to InnoDB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Sun Microsystems, and MySQL before that, Stewart was a Senior Software Engineer in the MySQL Cluster team working on core code and features inside the MySQL Server and the Cluster codebase working on projects such as: geographical asynchronous replication, online add node, online backup, NDBINFO for improved monitoring and the Win32 port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things I’ve been involved with:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n