Finnish software programmer
Michael Widenius is a Finnish computer scientist, engineer, programmer, software developer, and investor. He was born on March 3, 1962, in Helsinki, Finland, and holds citizenship in the country. Widenius studied at the Helsinki University of Technology.
He is best known as the founder of MySQL AB, a company that developed and provided services related to the MySQL open-source database management system. Widenius is also the creator of MariaDB, a community-developed fork of the MySQL database management system.
Finnish software programmer