A lifelong technologist, Steve got his start in high performance, high availability computing while in college at Penn State. As his career in technology progressed through programming and systems engineering, he made the transition into leadership and has never looked back. His successes include leading several companies through high growth phases as well as multiple mergers and acquisitions. He currently leads the engineering team at Percona where they build all the software components of the Percona Platform to bring Software, Services and Intelligence together to help organizations keep their database infrastructure running at peak performance. When he's not working, you'll find him and his family either soaring through the skies in his Bonanza or chasing his children down a ski slope!