Michaël De Groot
Database Administrator And Automation Advocate
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichaël De Groot is a seasoned database administrator and automation advocate with 11 years of focused experience designing and operating open-source MySQL and MariaDB ecosystems. He consults, trains and implements high-availability, scalable architectures—leveraging InnoDB/XtraDB, Galera, ProxySQL, ColumnStore and other storage engines—to solve performance and uptime challenges for customers worldwide. Comfortable across Linux, networking, virtualization and scripting, he champions Ansible-driven automation and CI/CD to reduce toil and enable repeatable, zero-downtime migrations. As a former MariaDB consultant and long-time independent consultant, he blends hands-on troubleshooting with pragmatic architecture and teaching. He also brings entrepreneurial depth as founder/CEO of IntoPARTY and co-founder of Contraband ICT, showing an ability to translate technical platforms into customer-facing products. Known for practical orchestration of complex HA setups, he frequently pairs deep storage-engine knowledge with automation to make resilient systems maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Misc
Dutch, English
Github Skills (171)
slave10
python10
multithreading10
leader-election10
mysql-proxy10
ntp10
mydumper10
ansible10
percona10
osticket9
database9
high-performance9
reverse-proxy9
database-connection9
proxy9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
michaeldg/ansible-keepalived
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
Role for setting up keepalived
Contributions:5 releases, 18 pushes, 5 tags in 2 years 11 months
reactrolesettingkeepalived
michaeldg/proxysql
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
This role installs and configures ProxySQL 2 - the high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL.
Contributions:35 releases, 60 PRs, 83 pushes in 2 years
proxy-serveravailabilitymysqlproxyreverse-proxy
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