Jean-Georges Perrin has been part of the Informix community for nearly 30 years. Elected to the Board of Directors of the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) in 2002, he served for 15 years and was the first non-US citizen elected to that board. A Lifetime IBM Champion, a distinction he earned through 16 consecutive years of recognition starting in 2009, when he became the first French citizen to receive the title, Jean-Georges has authored two ebooks on Informix, presented at IIUG conferences on topics ranging from 4GL modernization to proving that Informix is not just for legacy applications, and contributed to the Informix community across three continents.
He serves in Actian’s CTO Office, focused on data standards and AI strategy. But when HCL Informix does something worth writing about, old habits kick in. He chairs the Linux Foundation's Bitol project, where he leads the development of open standards for data contracts (ODCS) and data products (ODPS). He is the author of several books, including Implementing Data Mesh (O'Reilly) and Spark in Action, 2nd edition (Manning), and is currently writing Building Data Products for O'Reilly.
Working on databases in college made him hate them. Then karma introduced him to Informix. He never left.
