| Intro | American MySQL community contributor |
| Is | Computer scientist |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Technology Science |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 17 September 1978, Ridgewood |
| Age: | 41 years |
Sheeri Cabral (born 17 September 1978), née Kritzer, is a MySQL community contributor. She was chosen as the first Oracle ACE Director for MySQL. 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”. She delivered another community keynote entitled, “Under New Management: Next Steps for the Community” at the same conference in 2010. In 2012, she won the MySQL Community Award again for her work founding and co-hosting the OurSQL podcast.
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 developed a new version of mysqltuner (with permission from Major Hayden for the name), which led to developing the mysql_health check Nagios plugin.
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
- Program Committee Member for the Open Source Convention (OSCon) for 2011 and 2012
- IOUG MySQL Council Member, 2011–present
- MySQL Track Manager for Collaborate 2011
- Organizer of OpenSQLCamp Boston
- 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”), November 2006 – February 2009, December 2010 – June 2015
Cabral has worked as a Systems Administrator for Tufts University; a Database Administrator for Guardium, Inc, Manhunt.net and The Pythian Group and a Database Operations Manager for PalominoDB, Inc. She worked as a Senior Database Administrator/Architect at Mozilla between November 2011 and October 2016.