Dr. Mats Kindahl is a senior software developer working on the MySQLserver. He is the main architect and implementor of MySQL's row-basedreplication and is responsible for strategic development ofreplication, reengineering, and the plugin architecture. Beforestarting at MySQL, he did research in formal methods, programanalysis, and distributed systems, the area where he earned hisdoctoral degree in computer science. He has also spent many yearsdeveloping C/C++ compilers and knows more programming languages thanhe has fingers.
