I am a Software Engineer for the MariaDB Foundation. AMA!

EDIT: Time to wrap up now. Thanks for all the questions, and Vicențiu for coming through to answer them. It's been fun!

Vicențiu Ciorbaru is a Software Engineer at the MariaDB Foundation. A former Google Summer of Code student, his first involvement with MariaDB was to implement SQL Standard Roles. Since then he focused on optimizer related issues, taken part in implementing Window Functions for MariaDB, as well as replication related issues. He also helps with making sure MariaDB is adopted by Linux distributions, and that any specific issues present in them with regards to packaging are resolved.