Mikael Ronström:
Mikael Ronström invented NDB while working on his Ph.D in the 1990s while working in the Ericsson systems department.
Since then he has been busy continuing this development. From 1999 to 2003 this development happened inside Ericsson Business Innovation, since 2003 this development has been a part of MySQL.
Mikael Ronström has also developed many other areas of the MySQL Server such as MySQL Partitioning, the MySQL Thread pool and he led the development to scale the MySQL Server
from 4 CPUs to 64 CPUs during 2008 to 2012. He has been involved in early phases of the MySQL Fabric development, assisted the MySQL replication team to scale MySQL replication better.
His current assignment at Oracle is as Senior MySQL Architect.