CB Rank (Person) 689,204
  • Primary Job Title Software Engineer
  • Primary Organization 
    Craigslist

Jeremy Zawodny is an engineer at craigslist. He has worked previously as a Technology Evangelist at Yahoo. Prior to that, he was part of Yahoo's platform engineering group.

Jeremy and his two cats moved from Northwest Ohio to Silicon Valley in late 1999 so he could work for Yahoo--just in the time witness the .com bubble bursting

first-hand. He's been at Yahoo ever since then, helping to put MySQL and other Open Source technologies to use in fun, interesting, and often very big ways. Starting with the popular and high-traffic Yahoo Finance site, he worked to make MySQL part of the site's core infrastructure in large batch operations as well as real-time feed processing and serving content directly on the site. He then helped to spread "the MySQL religion" to numerous other groups within Yahoo, including News, Personals, Sports, and Shopping. Nowadays he acts as Yahoo's MySQL Guru, working with Yahoo's many engineering groups to get the most of of their MySQL deployments.

In 2000, he began writing for Linux Magazine and continues to do so today as a columnist and contributing editor. After over a year of active participation on the MySQL mailing list, he got the idea to write a book about MySQL. (How hard could it be, really?) You can still find him answering questions on the list today.

Since 2001, Jeremy has been speaking about MySQL at various conferences (O'Reilly's Open Source Conference, PHPCon, The MySQL User Conference, etc.) and user groups in locations as far away as Bangalore, India. His favorite topics are performance tuning, replication, clustering, and backup/recovery. In more recent times, he's rediscovered his love of aviation, earning a Private Pilot Glider license in early 2003. Since then he's spent far too much of his free time flying gliders out of Hollister, California and Truckee, near Lake Tahoe. He hopes to earn his Commercial Pilot license in 2004 and go on to become a certified flight instructor someday. Occasional MySQL consulting also helps to pay for his flying addiction.

On June 12, 2008 Jeremy announced via his blog that he would be leaving Yahoo and maybe go to startup !

Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 6
Jeremy Zawodny has 2 current jobs as Lead Software Engineer at Yosemite Space and Software Engineer at Craigslist. Additionally, Jeremy Zawodny has had 6 past jobs including Technology Evangelist at Yahoo.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Yahoo
Technology EvangelistJun 2006Jun 2008
Yahoo
Technical Yahoo19992008
LINUX Magazine
Senior Editor20012004
O'Reilly
Author: High Performance MySQL20022004
Marathon Oil Corporation
Developer19971999
Bowling Green State University
Computer Lab Tech Support19921997