People

Below are some of our principal people.  Read or subscribe to our OQ blog!

Arjen Lentz (IRC: arjenAU) helped build MySQL AB (employee#25, 2001-2007) until just before its acquisition by Sun Microsystems, and served as CEO of the MariaDB Foundation. He co-authored the 2nd edition of O’Reilly’s High Performance MySQL book, and speaks regularly at user groups and conferences.  He was a founding Director of OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia), and is a professional member of ITPA (Information Technology Professionals Australia, formerly SAGE-AU). 

Originally Arjen is a C programmer, with coding experience going back to the early 80s. He also has a keen interest in Open Source, sustainable business models (Upstarta), and sensible mental health (BlueHackers).  Outside of work hours, Arjen likes to spend time with his blended family, cook, walk, camp, read, listen to music, and grow herbs/veggies.

Arjen is Open Query’s Founder and Exec.Director; you can view his profile/bio and references on LinkedIn.

IwanBoskamp20130129_9344 Iwan Boskamp (IRC: Iwan) is Operations Manager, and also takes charge of special projects.
peter-lock Peter Lock (IRC: picnicpete) is a system and database administrator. At Open Query, Pete’s specialities are Galera Cluster, and backups. Pete is also one of our trainers. 

Peter loves getting out and about: cycling, canoeing, bushwalking.

nikolai Nikolai Lusan (IRC: Maliuta) is a system administrator. 

Nikolai mainly takes care of Open Query’s internal systems, but also assists with client work.


Past employees include Toby Thain, Zak Greant, Walter Heck, Peter Lieverdink, Elspeth Thorne, Sean Pringle, Lyndon Swan, Guillaume Lefranc, Steve Dalton, Grant Allen, Thom McIntyre, Daniel Black, and Tyndale Banza. Ray Cauchi and Sebastian Bergmann also did their parts. In their different jobs they’ve all helped build OQ. Thanks!