SPEAKER 2026
Daniel Black
Chief Innovation Officer, MariaDB Foundation
About Talk
MariaDB Foundry: Build, Extend and Contribute to MariaDB
Give participants a practical path from using MariaDB to contributing to it. The workshop will show how MariaDB development and contribution workflows work, use Foundry to make the build-test-iterate cycle approachable, and guide attendees through creating and testing a simple MariaDB plugin/extension.
TRACK: WORKSHOP (WS03)
7th Oct 2026 | Room 3 | Time:11:30-02:30
About Speaker
Daniel is a MariaDB all rounder. He started doing as a DBA, and then starting fixing the bugs. On the journey to continue these multi-perspectives of the same product, he found a niche at the MariaDB Foundation as their Chief Innovation Officer. There he continues to drive improvements in the code, the user usage, and the ecosystem of, and around, MariaDB