Andrew C. Oliver taught himself to code when he was 8. By 20 he was a DBA because he was the last one who knew how to operate the database and HP UX boxes. A few years later, he created an open-source project now called Apache POI, which involved reverse-engineering Microsoft’s binary file formats. He was an early hire at one of the early open-source start-ups, JBoss, before it sold to Red Hat. For years, he wrote a column for InfoWorld covering developer, database, and AI trends. Now he focuses on telling Couchbase’s story to a technical audience.