Sheeri Cabral

Sheeri K. Cabral (born 17 September 1978), née Sheeri Kritzer, is a MySQL community contributor. She won the MySQL Community Advocate, Communicator and Facilitator award in 2007 and again in 2008 for her frequent blog posts, community work, and conference/user group presentations; this sparked a keynote presentation for the 2009 MySQL User Conference & Expo on "How to be a Community Superhero".

Cabral wrote the MySQL Administrator's Bible, and has edited the O'Reilly books SQL Hacks(2007), High Performance MySQL 2nd edition(2008), and C.J. Date's How to Write Accurate SQL Code. Cabral develops and maintains a new version of mysqltuner (with permission from Major Hayden for the name).

Cabral has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University and is MySQL 5.0 DBA Certified and MySQL Core Certified.

Other notable work includes:

Program Committee Member for the 2010 MySQL User Conference & Expo

Organizer of the 2009 MySQL Camp

Boston MySQL User Group Founder and frequent speaker

Technocation, Inc Founder and Treasurer 2004 - present (2010)

Volunteer DBA work for The Human Creativity Project

MySQL Podcast ("OurSQL") from November 2006 – February 2009

Cabral has worked as a Systems Administrator for Tufts University; a Database Administrator for Guardium, Inc; and a Database Administrator for Manhunt.net while employed by Online Buddies, Inc. Cabral currently works for The Pythian Group.

External links

• Sheeri Cabral's blog