At the Brainiac Corner, we meet with some of the sharpest minds in the system, database, devops, and IT world. If you’d like to share your thoughts on pirates, ninjas, the future of system administration, or any other relevant topic, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

This week we are lucky to interview Sam Lambert, GitHub Database Administrator, and general all around badass. When he’s not surrounded by many leather bound books, Sam tweets @isamlambert, even sometimes about VividCortex

How did you get from stork to brainiac (i.e. …

At the Brainiac Corner, we meet with some of the sharpest minds in the system, database, devops, and IT world. If you’d like to share your thoughts on pirates, ninjas, the future of system administration, or any other relevant topic, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

This week we are lucky to hear from Amrith Kumar, a Founder and CTO at ParElastic, a venture-backed, pre-built MySQL sharding solution. We’ve gotten to know Amrith through the conference circuit and were even more excited to share his thoughts with our readers.

How did you get from stork to brainiac (i.e. what do you do today and how did you get there)?

I’ve always been fascinated by computers and …