George joined the Percona development team in April 2012. He has over 20 years of experience in software support, development, architecture, and project management. Prior to joining Percona, George focused on Windows-based enterprise application server development, network protocol classification, and optimization with heavy doses of database schema design, architecture, and tuning.
 
George lives in the beautiful mountains of north-central Arizona with his wife and cat. His hobbies are fiddling with cool bits of technology, home brewing and winemaking, tending his ever growing garden, hiking, fishing, camping and otherwise enjoying the out of doors as much as possible.