Frederic Descamps
Community Advocate
Charleroi Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolFrédéric Descamps is a seasoned open source and database professional with 15 years of experience specializing in MySQL architecture, community advocacy, and infrastructure engineering. He has held senior roles at Oracle and Percona and now serves as Community Advocate at the MariaDB Foundation, blending deep technical expertise with developer relations. A DevOps believer and former Linux consultant and teacher, he brings practical operational insight across deployments, DB administration, and consulting engagements. Based in the Charleroi metropolitan area, he pairs hands-on troubleshooting with community-building skills, often translating complex database internals into accessible guidance for users and contributors. Notably, his career bridges vendor-side database development and grassroots open source advocacy, giving him a rare dual perspective on product direction and ecosystem health.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Haute Ecole en HainautopenERP Training
English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French
Github Skills (123)
binary-log10
rdbms10
relational-databases10
database10
json10
mysql10
mysql-shell10
undelete10
geographical-information-system10
amazon-web-services10
driver10
storage-engine9
sql9
mysql-connector9
mysql-client9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
lefred/MySQL-motd
Nov 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
lefred/innotopgo
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Innotop for MySQL 8 written in Go
Contributions:5 releases, 5 reviews, 81 commits in 7 months
gomysql
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