About myself

My name is Lenz Grimmer and I am a Linux/Open Source enthusiast since 1995.

I currently live in Hamburg, Germany, and work for Percona from out of my home office, supporting and leading the teams that work on Percona’s various database server products like Percona Server for MySQL, MongoDB, and our PostgreSQL distribution.

Prior to joining Percona in January 2021, I worked at SUSE, where I supported the team that developed the Ceph Dashboard. I was appointed to be the Component Lead for this component in the upstream Ceph project. Previously, the team has been working on openATTIC, an Open Source Monitoring and Management System for Ceph, which SUSE acquired from it-novum in November 2016. After Ceph Dashboard had reached feature parity with openATTIC, the latter project had been put into maintenance mode.

I joined it-novum GmbH as the development and product management team lead for openATTIC in July 2015.

Before, I worked at TeamDrive Systems GmbH as a Senior Product Manager from January 2014 until June 2015.

From April 2011 until December 2013, I was a member of the Oracle Linux Product Management Team at Oracle.

Prior to that role, I worked in the MySQL community relations team. Before I joined that team in December 2005, I worked there as a senior production engineer, in charge of producing the official MySQL server release builds.

Before MySQL, I was a member of the distribution development team of SuSE Linux AG in Nuernberg, Germany from April 1998 until the end of March 2002.

My professional career started in 1996, as a Linux/Unix systems administrator at Comvos GmbH in Mannheim, Germany.

My public GPG key:

4096R/DBDDA420

GPG Fingerprint:

3D2E 9D09 8CB9 E3A6 791E 2BB3 E66F 1B6A DBDD A420

(See my Keyoxide profile for some identity claims associated with this key)

How to get in contact with me

• e-mail: lenz.grimmer@mailbox.org
• Delta Chat: lenz.grimmer+deltachat@mailbox.org
• Keybase: https://keybase.io/lenzgr
• Telegram: @LenzGr
• Jabber: lenzgr@jabber.org | lenz.grimmer@mailbox.org
• Mastodon: @lenzgr@mastodon.social
• Matrix: @lenzgr:matrix.org
• Twitter: @LenzGrimmer
• Threema: KZ7TKVEA

More about and from me in other places

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/LenzGr
• Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/LenzGr
• flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/lenzgr/
• GitHub: http://github.com/LenzGr
• Joind.in: http://joind.in/user/view/212
• Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~lenzgr
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lenzgrimmer
• OpenHub: https://www.openhub.net/accounts/Lenz
• Quora: https://www.quora.com/Lenz-Grimmer
• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/LenzGr
• Speaker Deck: https://speakerdeck.com/lenzgr
• SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/users/lenz
• Yelp: http://www.yelp.de/user_details?userid=byEM9yw99U81PC0ZCyrh6A
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LenZGr