I am a consultant, MySQL authorized instructor and DBA. I’m a software developer and an instructor.
I provide MySQL consulting in Israel and world wide, and can be contacted by: shlomi[at]openark.org

Winner of the MySQL Community Member of the Year, 2009 award.

Experience

MySQL consultant

Providing MySQL consulting: design, deployment, maintenance, and optimization services.

MySQL instructor & consultant, Java instructor at Interbit C&T

An authorized MySQL instructor, providing MySQL’s training (MySQL DBA, MySQL Performance Tuning, etc.) in Israel. A certified MySQL DBA.
An instructor at the Training Center, instructing Java & Unix courses.

Owner & CTO At S.F.N.K Ltd.

A business intelligence service provider company, with a large base of customers. I am the chief architect and developer of the company’s product.

Past experience

Software developer, hired and freelance, at various projects and locations.

Extensive experience with building Java/J2EE applications, C/C++ desktop & server applications.

Java instructor at the Open University of Israel.

Education

MSc in Computer Science (pending), The Open University of Israel

BA in Computer Sciences, The Open University of Israel

Specialties

MySQL (design, maintenance, performance tuning)
Java (core, J2EE, Spring framework, Velocity)
C/C++ (gcc, Visual C++/MFC, C++ Builder)
Web (HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, XML)
Python, Unix scripting
Linux, Tomcat.
SQL

Contribution

Author of mycheckpoint and openark kit.

Author of code.openark.org posts.