Alvin Richards is the field CTO at MariaDB, the leading high-performance open source relational database, where he connects the dots between practitioners and innovators and MariaDB’s products. In prior lives, Alvin was vice president of product at Aerospike; ran engineering teams at Docker and MongoDB, leading the revolution of microservices and NoSQL; was technical director at NetApp, working to integrate databases and virtual infrastructures with storage; and worked at Oracle on data warehousing products.