Manfred Moser is a community advocate, writer, trainer and software engineer at Starburst. Manfred has a long history of developing and advocating open source software. He is an Apache Maven committer, wrote the Hudson book and others, and continues to be active in the open source community and his projects. He is a seasoned trainer and conference presenter for CI/CD, Cloud Native, Agile and other softwaredevelopment tools and processes, having trained well over 20,000 developers for companies including Walmart Labs, Sonatype, and Telus.

His database background includes designing databases and related applications in the RDBMS space and working as business intelligence consultant wrangling thousands of lines of SQL by hand. He is glad he can use Presto now, and is spreading the word about how great Presto is.