Maria Pflaum

Maria Pflaum has extensive experience in technical support and engineering, currently serving as a Senior Technical Support Engineer at MariaDB Corporation since September 2018. Prior to this role, Maria worked as a Senior Sales Engineer at MariaDB Corporation (formerly Clustrix) where technical consulting facilitated the sale of high-performance SQL databases. Notably, Maria played a pivotal role as a Founding Technical Support Engineer at SQLstream, establishing the company's first application support function. Earlier positions include Senior System Administrator at PSC and Senior Staff Technical Support Consultant at EMC, where Maria provided global support for various software products. Maria's career began as a Research Programmer at the University of Illinois, contributing to the Digital Library Initiative. Maria Pflaum holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.