Patrick Galbraith has been involved in MySQL, Linux, and other Open Source (OSS) projects back to the early days of Slackware. He has worked broad spectrum of companies and in a wide array of roles throughout his career, including Slashdot, MySQL, Blue Gecko, Hewlett-Packard, and now Oracle, and contributed to a number of Oper Source projects such as MySQL, Drizzle, DBD::mysql, Kubernetes, Helm charts for MySQL and Galera. In the past decade of his career, Patrick has had a focus on anything related to cloud computing, and in more recent years, containerization with emphasis on Kubernetes; this focus, like all his past endeavors, included participation in the associated OSS communities that continues to this day. Patrick has a keen, and long-standing interest in the effective marriage stateful applications such as databases and Kubernetes with a bent toward MySQL. To this end, Patrick's "MySQL on Kubernetes" demonstration is a deep-rooted passion and desire to promote the use of Kubernetes as a solid platform for databases.

Patrick has spoken at a number of conferences including last year at Kubecon in Austin, TX. The talk can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7h0F34iBx0.

He is an author of two books. one in both English and Mandarin, "Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl" and "Expert PHP and MySQL" (both Wiley)

His other conferences can be seen here: http://patg.net/speaking.html