Georgi Kodinov
Community Contributions Officer at MariaDB Foundation
Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolGeorgi Kodinov is a seasoned systems software engineer and community-focused leader with more than 30 years in the industry and two decades of hands-on experience building and managing database engines and server teams. He has led release and server-general teams at MySQL, Sun, and Oracle, and now champions contributor workflows and code quality at the MariaDB Foundation. Deeply versed in DBMS internals, Georgi’s contributions to the widely used MariaDB server include fixes for configuration parsing, data corruption, and certificate validation—work that underpins the reliability of a major open-source SQL server. He pairs low-level expertise (including past assembly and performance work) with proven people management, consistently turning complex storage and security problems into production-ready solutions. Based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, he blends long-term product stewardship with active community mentorship to keep critical database infrastructure healthy and secure.
20 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Plovdiv Mathematical High schoolDipl. Engineer Automation, Dipl. Engineer Automation at Technical university Plovdiv
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
databases10
debug10
c1110
sql10
relational-databases10
mysql10
mariadb10
database10
data-structure9
storage-engine9
data-structures9
error-handling8
security8
character-encoding6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MariaDB/server
Mar 2006 - Mar 2019
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:2354 commits in 13 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Georgi primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the MariaDB server codebase. Their work included resolving issues related to configuration file parsing, deprecation warnings, and data corruption problems. They also addressed security vulnerabilities in certificate validation, and improved the handling of string storage and character sets. These changes involved modifications to core server files, specifically focusing on SQL processing and data storage mechanisms, demonstrating a strong understanding of database internals.
licensedsql-servermysqlsqlmariadb-server
twitter-forks/mysql
Mar 2006 - Jul 2014
MySQL fork maintained and used at Twitter
Contributions:2299 commits in 8 years 5 months
mysqltwitterdatabase-access
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