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Chris Travers

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Chris Travers: I guess the best way to answer this is to say I am from the US. I moved around a lot as a kid – California, Michigan, Utah, Washington State. In 2010, I moved abroad, and have not moved back. Since then I have lived in Indonesia, Sweden, and Germany. I am now living in Indonesia again.

Reading time: 12 minutes

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Vincent Picavet

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Vincent Picavet: My name is Vincent Picavet. Originally an applied maths engineer, I created and run Oslandia since 2009, focusing on Open Source Geographical Information Systems 🌍, namely QGIS, PostGIS. I live in France in the Drôme valley, work remote since 2009, and speak French, English, Spanish and German. My favorite projection is an octant projection with Reuleaux triangles.

Reading time: 7 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   postgis (10)   gis (5)   map (1)   opensource (20)   biking (2)  
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Samay Sharma

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Samay Sharma: I’m Samay Sharma and I live in San Jose, USA with my wife and my toddler girl. I was born in India and did my university education from IIIT-Hyderabad, India. Today, I work at Microsoft and manage our open source Postgres team. It’s a great opportunity for me to work with PostgreSQL and learn from the knowledge and expertise of different committers and contributors.

Reading time: 8 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   microsoft (7)   community (20)  
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Thom Brown

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Thom Brown: I was born and grew up in a town called Crawley, which is about half way between London and the south coast of England, and it’s probably best known for the band The Cure, or the comedian Romesh Ranganathan.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Frits Hoogland

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Frits Hoogland: My name is Frits Hoogland, I am born, raised and living in Lutjebroek, which is a tiny village in the Netherlands (of which most people don’t know it actually exists). I am married to Suzanne and have a son named Jason.

Reading time: 9 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   yugabytedb (1)  
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Takamichi Osumi

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Takamichi Osumi: My name is Takamichi Osumi. I’m a Japanese born and raised in Tokyo. Currently, I live in the Shizuoka prefecture where I can enjoy an easier access to the relaxing nature. I have worked in the Fujitsu open-source team for the last couple of years and got involved in some PostgreSQL projects.

Reading time: 7 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   japan (7)   fujitsu (5)   logical replication (4)  
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Luca Ferrari

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Luca Ferrari: I live in Italy, with my beautiful wife Emanuela, my great son Diego, our female cats, Sofia and Olivia, and our female dog Franzina. We live near the city of Modena, the land of sports cars like Ferrari and Maserati, and also the center of very good food and wine.

Reading time: 13 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   italy (2)   books (1)   university (1)   archery (1)   pgtraining (1)  
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Miroslav Šedivý

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Miroslav Šedivý: My name is Miroslav Šedivý, but most people call me Miro, which allows them to avoid typing some letters they do not have on their keyboard. I was born in Czechoslovakia (yes, I am over 30 now), studied computer sciences in France and Germany, and now I am living in Austria.

Reading time: 8 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   python (8)   postgis (10)   openstreetmap (1)   opensource (20)   speaker (3)   conference (9)  
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Tushar Ahuja

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Tushar Ahuja: My name is Tushar Ahuja, I am from India. My father was a retired Indian army officer, unfortunately, he passed away in 2008 due to cancer. My mother is a homeworker, My brother is a businessman. We are very fortunate that we are living with her.

Reading time: 8 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   edb (16)   enterprisedb (5)  
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Aleš Zelený

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Aleš Zelený: My name is Aleš Zelený, I live in the Czech Republic in a small village close to Prague. My current job position is PostgreSQL DBA & DevOps in the Betsys company - sports betting information system provider. I’m a member of the Czech and Slovak PostgreSQL Users Group, CSPUG.

Reading time: 8 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   logical-replication (4)   dba (8)   conferences (12)   partitioning (4)  
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Tobias Bussmann

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Tobias Bussmann: Grown up in a midsized wine-town in Germany, I started working in (Windows) System Administration during school. In doing so, I had come in touch with Programming and Databases. Still at University, I started my own business in data driven marketing and ran it for almost ten years. Today, another ten years later, I’m living in Bern, Switzerland, working for the Swiss Academy of Sciences. Over the time, I became deeply involved in the PostgreSQL community. Further, I’m supporting privacy, open-source, open-data and civil society concerns as I’m overall a political person.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Wilfried Roset

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Wilfried Roset: I’m originally from Paris area in France and I live now in Bordeaux with my wife and my 2 years old son. I’m more a SRE responsible for databases from an infrastructure perspective. I love the new term associated with this role DBRE: Databases Reliability Engineer.

Reading time: 6 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   patroni (6)   timescale (1)   ovhcloud (2)   france (18)   observability (1)   dbre (1)  
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Étienne Bersac

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Étienne Bersac: My name is Étienne BERSAC, I’m a 37 years old French man living in a small village of Périgord, France. I’m married and raising 3 young children.

Reading time: 9 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   cooperative (2)   dalibo (8)   development (6)   family (5)   france (18)   friends (5)   git (3)   emacs (1)   opensource (20)   python (8)   temboard (1)   scotland (2)   breton (1)   go (1)  
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Cédric Duprez

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Cédric Duprez: I am Cédric Duprez and I live near Montargis, in the center of France. I work as a database expert in the National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN), which is the reference public operator for geographic and forest information in France.

Reading time: 7 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   france (18)   pgdayfr (2)   national forest inventory (1)   aikido (1)   postgis (10)   ogr_fdw (2)  
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Christoph Berg

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Christoph Berg: In Debian, I’ve been working on Quality Assurance, in the New Members team, on various random packages, and lastly of course on the PostgreSQL packages. At work, I’m a senior consultant with credativ’s PostgreSQL team. I’m a PostgreSQL Major Contributor, working on packaging apt.postgresql.org for Debian and Ubuntu.

Reading time: 3 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   debian (1)   packaging (1)   opensource (20)  
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Joseph Sciarrino

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Joseph Sciarrino: I’m the co-founder and CEO of Hydra - the open source data warehouse that’s built on Postgres. I grew up in Connecticut, but have spent my adult life all across the US; North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, New York, and at long last, California. I live by Duboce park in San Francisco which is great for our tiny dog, Titus.

Reading time: 5 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   data-warehouse (1)   olap (1)   hydra (1)   postgres (12)   opensource (20)  
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Peter Smith

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Peter Smith: My name is Peter Smith. Originally from New Zealand, I now live and work from home on the NSW Central Coast, just north of Sydney Australia. My employer is Fujitsu Australia Software Technology (FAST), and for the last couple of years I have been a member of Fujitsu’s PostgreSQL open-source team.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Karen Jex

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Karen Jex: I’m originally from the North West of England and I lived in various different parts of the country before settling in the South East, commuting to London from Essex for the first few years of my working life as a DBA. I’ve spent my whole career working with databases, and I’m currently a Solutions Architect with Crunchy Data. My husband and I moved to a small village in the French Alps 17+ years ago because of our love of mountain biking (Essex isn’t exactly well-known for its mountains). Our two kids, who are now teenagers, were both born here and say they feel more French than British. The eldest is also a mountain biker and is, of course, much better at it than we are!

Reading time: 8 minutes

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Jeevan Ladhe

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Jeevan Ladhe: My name is Jeevan Ladhe. I live in Maharashtra state of India, in Pune city. I stay here with my mother, wife and son. My older brother and his family, who are dearer to us, stay in the same state in the city well known as Mumbai.

Reading time: 6 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   partitioning (4)   edb (16)   foreign-data-wrapper (3)   backup (3)   mysql_fdw (1)   hdfs_fdw (1)   pg_basebackup (1)  
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Douglas Hunley

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Douglas Hunley: My name is Douglas Hunley, and I live outside Columbus, OH (USA). I’m a former Oracle Jr DBA turned Unix Sys Admin, turned EDI Administrator, turned Linux Sys Admin, turned PostgreSQL DBA who is now focused on PostgreSQL security and Ansible automation of highly-available PostgreSQL.

Reading time: 6 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   ansible (5)   crunchy (6)   security (1)  
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Hou Zhijie

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Hou Zhijie: My name is Hou Zhijie. I am from China and live in Nanjing. I have been working at Nanjing Fujitsu Nanda Software Technology since graduation. I was working in the Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL development and maintenance team, and now I work as part of the PostgreSQL open-source team at Fujitsu.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Elizabeth Garrett Christensen

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Elizabeth Garrett Christensen: I’m not your average Postgres person of the week - I’m a non-developer as well as a Postgres fan and marketing/sales/customer facing person. I am part of a Postgres co-working couple and my husband David Christensen and I both work for Crunchy Data from our home in Lawrence, Kansas.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Laura Ricci

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Laura Ricci: I was born into an Italian family who had emigrated to France. I studied literature and foreign languages before I started working several different jobs. Then I went abroad in order to work for two non-profit organizations as a volunteer.

Reading time: 5 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   dalibo (8)   communication (1)   france (18)   cooperative (2)  
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Charly Batista

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Charly Batista: I’m born in a small town in the Brazilian Amazon area. My parents moved to Brasilia (the capital city of Brazil) when I was around 12yo. I finished high school and went to college in Brasilia, but never really finished it. During the years I’ve moved through cities and companies, and ended up moving to China to work with Postgres around 7 years ago.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Hervé Schweitzer

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Hervé Schweitzer: My name is Hervé Schweitzer and I live in Courgenay (Canton of Jura, Switzerland), but I’m originally from Alsace (France), where I was born and lived until 2019. I worked as an Oracle DBA (database administrator) from 1997 to 2010. Then, with 4 friends, we decided to start our own company - dbi-services - which is an expertise company in the database/middleware field.

Reading time: 4 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   switzerland (7)   ansible (5)   postgresql (155)   postgres-on-cloud (2)  
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Hironobu Suzuki

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Hironobu Suzuki: I’m Hironobu Suzuki, the author of The Internals of PostgreSQL and pg_plan_inspector. I was born in and mainly lived in Japan; I lived in South America decades ago; I’ve lived in Europe since 2018. See my site in more detail.

Reading time: 9 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   japan (7)   pg_plan_inspector (1)   the internals of postgresql (1)   cycling (2)   music (6)   ai (1)   machine learning (1)   model-checking (1)  
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Haki Benita

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Haki Benita: I’m Haki Benita. I’m living with my family in a city near Tel-Aviv. My interest in development started at around junior-high, and I’ve been working as a professional developer since I was 18.

Reading time: 5 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   sql (7)   dba (8)   django (4)   python (8)  
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Abbas Butt

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Abbas Butt: My name is Ghulam Abbas Butt and I am from a small town called Wah Cantt, near Islamabad, Pakistan. I am a Senior Software Architect at EnterpriseDB. I have been working for EnterpriseDB since Jan 2011. In about two years I will be celebrating the silver jubilee of my professional career, that mainly spans product development.

Reading time: 6 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   edb (16)   development (6)  
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Philippe Beaudoin

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Philippe Beaudoin: I live in France, more precisely in Rouen, in the Normandy. I’m working at Dalibo for about 6 years. In my previous job at Bull, I have had the great opportunity to manage the migration to PostgreSQL for a large customer in France: CNAF. That was 14 years ago.

Reading time: 3 minutes

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Bharath Rupireddy

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Bharath Rupireddy: My name is Bharath Rupireddy. I’m working at Microsoft on Postgres internals. I live with my wife, Mrs. Brundhavani, in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Jehan-Guillaume De Rorthais

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Jehan-Guillaume De Rorthais: I’m from France and living there. I work with PostgreSQL since 2009 thanks to Dalibo.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Taras Kloba

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Taras Kloba: My name is Taras Kloba, I was born in Drohobych. It is a small town in Western Ukraine with a population of about 75 thousand people. Currently, I live in Lviv with my wife and our three daughters — our oldest daughter is seven years old, and the twins are two years old.

Reading time: 8 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   community (20)   ukraine (4)  
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Claire Giordano

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Claire Giordano: I have lived in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area for my entire adult career, from the time I was a junior software engineer in the developer tools group at Sun. But before that, I moved around — a lot. I was born in Taiwan, and then lived in Rhode Island, California, New Jersey, Athens Greece, Mississippi, Rhode Island again, and New Hampshire.

Reading time: 8 minutes

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Michael Christofides

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Michael Christofides: Hi, I’m Michael Christofides. I have lived in the UK my whole life, in Essex, Nottingham, Cambridge, London, and now, with my partner Lauren, in Guildford. My surname is Cypriot, but I’m also part German, French, and English. I consider myself European, even if my country doesn’t (sorry). Work-wise, my background is mostly in product management.

Reading time: 5 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   performance (4)   explain (3)   design (1)   uk (1)  
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Jaime Casanova

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Jaime Casanova: My name is Jaime Casanova and I’m starting my 40’s. I’m from Ecuador, a little country in South America, a nice place to visit with beaches and highlands, jungles and big cities too… especially I will recommend anyone to visit the Galapagos Islands. I’m also a Chilean citizen because of my dad and have a little percentage of Italian blood because of my mom’s grandfather.

Reading time: 9 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   postgres (12)   latam (1)   opensource (20)   systemguards (1)   ecuador (1)   chile (2)  
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Ibrar Ahmed

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Ibrar Ahmed: My name is Ibrar Ahmed. I am from Islamabad, Pakistan. I love my city, one of the beautiful cities in the world, peaceful and calm. Here in Islamabad, we have a very good presence of PostgreSQL companies, like EnterpriseDB, 2ndQuadrant (now EBD), Percona, HighGO, and Bitnine.

Reading time: 7 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   database (2)   database internals (3)   islamabad (1)   percona (2)  
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Gianni Ciolli

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Gianni Ciolli: I was born in 1973 in Prato, an Italian city in Tuscany which is quite important for the history of PostgreSQL. I lived around there for a long time, and then I spent some years in Rome. Now I live in London with my teenage son.

Reading time: 6 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   2ndquadrant (8)   edb (16)   prato (1)  
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Julia Gugel

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Julia Gugel: I was born in Germany, near the Swiss border. In 2011, I moved to Switzerland to be closer to my workplace and to reduce my commuting time. I now work in Basel and I really enjoy the region. Being close to France and Germany generates an enriching cultural and linguistic diversity. It’s the best of both worlds… except there are three!

Reading time: 5 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   switzerland (7)   dba (8)   conference (9)  
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Henrietta Dombrovskaya

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Henrietta Dombrovskaya: My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. Originally from Russia, I moved to the US more than 25 years ago. I live in Chicago, Illinois, where I recently moved after living in the suburbs for many years. I like it a lot, especially because now I live just ten minutes walk away from a beach.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Álvaro Herrera

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Álvaro Herrera: I am a 1976-vintage Chilean tinkerer who grew up disassembling all manner of things and trying to figure out how to put them back again; my father owned a Z80 computer when I was a kid, and I was amazed at some of the things it did, and it led me into developing an interest in doing things with computers. I started my journey with Linux in 1997 and was amazed at the plethora of things I could do with it – that’s where I really learned to program (in Perl).

Reading time: 11 minutes

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Kuntal Ghosh

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Kuntal Ghosh: Hi, I am Kuntal, and I live in Bangalore, India. I’ve started exploring PostgreSQL during my Master Thesis, and continued it by joining EDB in India. Currently, I’m working at Amazon on Aurora Postgres.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Vibhor Kumar

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Vibhor Kumar: I was born and raised in India. After finishing my master’s in Computer Application, I joined CMC Ltd, where I worked as a system integrator and helped three big insurance companies digitize their insurance process.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Ashutosh Bapat

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Ashutosh Bapat: I am from Pune, Maharashtra, India. I graduated from IIT Bombay with M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering. As part of my masters thesis I worked on “Pitch Detection of voice in Tabla accompaniment”. I started my career working with Sybase, now an SAP company, as a database internals developer. I worked on ASE, Sybase’s flagship database server.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Emre Hasegeli

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Emre Hasegeli: I was born and grew up in İzmir, Turkey, studied in İstanbul, lived and worked in Germany and in the UK for a while, and moved back to my hometown this year. I am currently working remotely for End Point, a US based software consultancy company which develops Bucardo.

Reading time: 6 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   consulting (4)   endpoint (1)   bucardo (1)   turkey (1)   izmir (1)  
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Louise Grandjonc

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Louise Grandjonc: I’m Louise, I come from France and recently moved to Vancouver (Canada, not Washington, I was not aware there was another Vancouver before announcing I was moving, and several US people asked) to work at Crunchy Data as a senior software engineer.

Reading time: 8 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   django (4)   python (8)   orm (2)   query (1)   indexes (1)   optimisation (1)  
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John Naylor

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with John Naylor: I was born in Oklahoma, USA, but have been nomadic since 2017. During that time I’ve mostly lived in Southeast Asia, but in 2020-21 I lived in Barbados and now the Dominican Republic. The “thing that need not be named” slowed me down but didn’t stop me. I haven’t commuted to an office since 2011, and I’ve always had a fascination for foreign cultures, so it was natural that I’d end up doing this.

Reading time: 7 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   enterprisedb (5)   nomad (1)   committer (6)  
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Tatsuro Yamada

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Tatsuro Yamada: I was born in Hokkaido, a prefecture in the north part of Japan, and I live near Tokyo now. I work as an in-house database engineer at NTT Comware, providing technical support, product verification, and human resource education for PostgreSQL. And I’m contributing to the PostgreSQLcommunity by developing useful features for DBAs, and by reporting problems.

Reading time: 9 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   japan (7)   pgconf.asia (1)   pgcon (5)   jazzsamba (1)   oracle_fdw (2)   pg_hint_plan (1)   pg_plan_advsr (1)   adaptive (1)  
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Sebastiaan Mannem

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Sebastiaan Mannem: I was born in a city that is nowadays called Lelystad in the Netherlands. Lelystad was founded in 1967, and is built on reclaimed land, so a few years before that it was all water, and it still is approximately 3 metres (9.8 feet) below the sea level.

Reading time: 10 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   edb (16)   ansible (5)   postgresql_pg_hba (1)   wal-g (2)   oauth2 (1)   museum (1)  
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Amit Kapila

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Amit Kapila: I live in Bangalore, India. I have been working in databases for more than 20 years and with PostgreSQL for about 11 years. I have started my journey of PostgreSQL in Huawei, then moved to EDB and now working with Fujitsu. Prior to that, I have worked mostly with Oracle database.

Reading time: 6 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   databases (7)   logical-replication (4)   performance and scalability (1)   parallel-query (1)   hash-index (1)  
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Soumyadeep Chakraborty

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Soumyadeep Chakraborty: My hometown is Kolkata, India and I have spent the majority of my life there, including 3 years in the tech industry. More recently I have been living in the United States: I lived in Long Island, NY for a year and a half. I have been living in San Jose, California for the past two years, working at VMware.

Reading time: 8 minutes

Tags:   postgresql (155)   greenplum (2)   vmware (3)   jit (1)   postgres (12)   table am (1)  
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Akshay Joshi

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Akshay Joshi: I am from India, born and brought up in Indore, but living in Pune since I joined EDB. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computers, and post graduated with a Master of Computer Applications. I am married and have 2 kids - a 13 year old son and an 8 year old daughter.

Reading time: 3 minutes

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Andrey Borodin

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Andrey Borodin: I’m from Russia. I was born in a village called Sarana and eventually moved to the nearby city Ekaterinburg in the Ural region. Technically it’s a border of Europe and Asia, close to the median between Beijing and Berlin.

Reading time: 11 minutes

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Bryn Llewellyn

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Bryn Llewellyn: I came to PostgreSQL only relatively recently, in the spring of 2019, when I left my job in the PL/SQL Team at Oracle HQ to join Yugabyte Inc. This is an exciting Silicon Valley startup, one of whose founders had been a close colleague of mine in the PL/SQL team. My first blog post in my new job, Why I Moved from Oracle to YugaByte, explains how I was easily persuaded to make this change after close to thirty years with Oracle.

Reading time: 14 minutes

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Roman Druzyagin

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Roman Druzyagin: Name’s Roman. I’ve been born and lived most of my life in Russia. I grew up near Moscow, and since 2002 I’ve been residing in St. Petersburg, with plans to relocate to the European Union in the near future. I am currently 33 years old.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Jean-Christophe Arnu

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Jean-Christophe Arnu: Hi, I’m Jean-Christophe. I live in the south of France, near Toulouse. As far as I can remember, I have always been interested in computer science and programming. I moved a lot when I was a child but I settled in the Toulouse area when I started university. I am the father of 3 children, which is my first full time job, my second being a PostgreSQL database consultant in a PostgreSQL and Cloud dedicated company (we all are remote workers): LOXODATA.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Daniel Westermann

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Daniel Westermann: I grew up in Germany exactly at the border to Switzerland and I am still living in this area. For my entire life I have been enjoying the region where France, Switzerland and Germany come together. Today I live very close to the city of Basel, but still in Germany.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Stefan Keller

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Stefan Keller: I’m a Professor for Data Engineering since about 20 years and director of Institute for Software at Eastern University of Switzerland. I’m a spatialist; my focus is on spatial data engineering, spatial data analytics and open source, open data and educational resources.

Reading time: 8 minutes

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Nikolay Samokhvalov

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Nikolay Samokhvalov: I’m from Russia, a small place in the Penza region. Born in 1981 and moved to the Moscow area in 1998 – to study Mathematics and Physics in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, quite famous in Russia and outside it. I chose Computer Science and, particularly, Databases specialization almost in the beginning – and stick to it, without regrets. Databases are at heart of almost any computer system!

Reading time: 15 minutes

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Georgios Kokolatos

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Georgios Kokolatos: I am a Greek, born and raised in Athens. I changed many locations since and I finally moved to Sweden from Chile ca 2013. I found a haven in Sweden and I am very grateful for it.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Magnus Hagander

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Magnus Hagander: I was born and live in the area of Stockholm, Sweden. I’ve been involved with PostgreSQL for a long time, and been working full time with or nearby PostgreSQL for a bit over 10 years, as a consultant with Redpill Linpro in Stockholm (though customers are all over the Scandinavian region).

Reading time: 8 minutes

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Dave Page

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Dave Page: I’m Dave Page, also known as pgSnake on IRC, Twitter and so on. I grew up and continue to live near Oxford in the UK. I’ve been working on PostgreSQL for over 20 years, contributing (or hindering, depending on your point of view!) in many different areas of the project. I currently serve on the project’s Core and Sysadmin teams, and on the board of directors for PostgreSQL Europe and the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada.

Reading time: 10 minutes

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Corey Huinker

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Corey Huinker: I grew up in Wisconsin near a circus museum. I have no skill at juggling, so joining them was not an option. Instead I became a programmer and wandered around the US (Raleigh, Portland, Austin) before finally settling down in New York City.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Pavlo Golub

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Pavlo Golub: Hello. My name is Pavlo Golub. I’m originally from Ukraine, but now I live in Slovakia. I’m a developer and consultant at Cybertec PostgreSQL International.

Reading time: 11 minutes

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Devrim Gündüz

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Devrim Gündüz: I’m a community person. Ex-Turkey, now Londoner. Started using Linux in 1996, and PostgreSQL in 1998. Love to travel, listen to music, and enjoy life with friends. Started working around 2000. Joined PostgreSQL community around 1999. Working for EnterpriseDB since 2010, and also running two PostgreSQL companies in Turkey and in the UK.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Julien Riou

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Julien Riou: My name is Julien Riou. I currently work at OVHcloud, a major Cloud Computing provider in Europe. As a student, I discovered GNU/Linux. I started my career as a system administrator, then I became an open-source database specialist. I live in Belgium, a small country with cold and wet Winters but also with warm welcoming people.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Anastasia Lubennikova

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Anastasia Lubennikova: Hi, I am Anastasia, and I live in Moscow, Russia. I am a core developer working at Postgres Professional and all my career so far was devoted to the PostgreSQL project. In my spare time I like reading science fiction, jogging on the embankments of the Moscow river and practicing yoga. Sometimes I sign up to do something that excites and scares me at the same time, and it usually turns out to be an amazing adventure.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Takayuki Tsunakawa

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Takayuki Tsunakawa: I’m a Japanese man who was born and lives in Japan, near Tokyo. I am visually impaired by nature, and I have only enough eyesight to feel the light now. But I had somewhat better vision when I was a child, and enjoyed playing video games with friends or alone. I can’t see the screen, so I use screen reader software that reads characters by synthesized voice.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Valeria Kaplan

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Valeria Kaplan: I am originally from what is now known as Kazakhstan and what was then USSR, but I have moved around the world quite a bit and, at the moment, live in the UK. My background is in communications and marketing and I worked in the pharma industry and academia before joining Data Egret. Prior to that I only had a very remote idea about databases, the nearest that I came to working with them was my experience with FileMaker. Mind you, this experience proved to be quite handy in understanding the processes and challenges surrounding database maintenance.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Hubert Lubaczewski

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Hubert Lubaczewski: I’m Hubert Lubaczewski, but I try to be better known as “depesz” (lower case). I’m 40+ years old with an undying fascination of tech. My personal hobbies (PostgreSQL + Perl + Linux) allowed me to translate to remote work years ago, and have since been loving living in a forest/wooded area. Geographically, I live close to Warsaw, the capital of Poland.

Reading time: 11 minutes

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Alexander Sosna

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Alexander Sosna: I am from the north west of Germany near the border to the Netherlands and Belgium. My wife, my children and I live in beautiful Nettetal, the lake town on the Lower Rhine.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Franck Pachot

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Franck Pachot: I’m Franck Pachot. I was born in South of France (Avignon), studied in Paris (Orsay), worked in Paris, Brussels, Dakar, Libreville, Antananarivo, Sophia-Antipolis… and now settled in Switzerland for 10 years. I’ve been working in IT mostly with databases, in development (data architecture and modeling) and operations (installation, migration, High-Availability, tuning), and mostly as a consultant, also giving training. I’m passionate about all databases and enjoy it the most when I can improve both the database performance and the dev-ops communication.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Marc Linster

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Marc Linster: I was born and raised in Luxembourg. After getting a computer science degree at the University of Kaiserslautern, I joined the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (today part of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft) working on expert systems and AI. In 1992, I moved to the US, working in the software and consulting business, always with a focus on data and databases. After four years at Polycom, where I had the opportunity to work on their Video as a Service, I joined EDB in 2013.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Gunnar 'Nick' Bluth

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Gunnar ‘Nick’ Bluth: I’m Gunnar (aka. “Nick”) Bluth, born in ‘73, married with two grown-up kids. I grew up in Münster/Westfalen in Germany, where I repatriated to in 2016 after living near Frankfurt/M. for 13 years. So I’ll probably also rot here ;-)

Reading time: 8 minutes

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Amit Langote

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Amit Langote: Originally from India, I now live in Tokyo, Japan and have for the last few years. I am married and have a toddler daughter. I joined EDB earlier this year and before that I worked at NTT OSS Center since arriving in Tokyo. I have mostly worked on PostgreSQL in my professional life and most of it with the folks of the open source community developing it.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Carole Arnaud

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Carole Arnaud: I was born in Nantes (~300k inhabitants, western France) 44 years ago already. I am the eldest of 3 siblings. I used to be a shy child and teenager: actually, I was more comfortable studying than socializing. Fortunately it’s much better now :-)

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Stéphane Schildknecht

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Stéphane Schildknecht: I live in a small town in the East of France. After graduating in Computational Chemistry, I jumped into consulting at the beginning of the century. I was already convinced by OpenSource. I had the opportunity to discover MySQL and PostgreSQL at that time. I worked on a big PostgreSQL project, and understood PostgreSQL will be a big game changer in the database industry.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Pavel Stehule

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Pavel Stehule: I am from the Czech Republic, and live in my home village in Central Czech. I am an independent developer, consultant and lecturer. My work is 100% related to Postgres - training, solving customer performance issues, writing patches, bug fixing.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Markus Wanner

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Markus Wanner: I’m Swiss, living in the German speaking part of Switzerland, together with my wife and our two kids. I turned 40 this year, which just makes me realize that it’s now half my life that I’m somehow involved in the PostgreSQL project.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Kaarel Moppel

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Kaarel Moppel: Hi, I’m Kaarel, an Estonian by nationality, living currently near our capital city of Tallinn, but in the midst of forest and bogs already. I’ve been working on database and data-centric tech positions for almost 15 years and currently active at Cybertec PostgreSQL consulting as a senior consultant.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Elein Mustain

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Elein Mustain: I was born in El Paso, Texas, USA. My family is mostly from California and Texas. I’ve lived most of my life in the San Francisco East Bay Area primarily in Oakland, California. A notable exception was three years in Maracaibo, Venezuela when I was starting elementary school. This was followed by studying Spanish from then into college. Another interesting locale was Albany, California in 1968/9 while my father went back to school at UC Berkeley.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Stefan Fercot

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Stefan Fercot: Hi, I’m Stefan. I live in Belgium, where we have a lot of good food and drinks. I’m working for EDB on database backup topics and contributing to the pgBackRest project. My main hobby is playing badminton. Not only playing, I’m also a Referee sometimes.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Damien Clochard

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Damien Clochard: I’m Damien Clochard, I live in France and I’m the president of PostgreSQLFr, the French Speaking PostgreSQL association. I’m also one of the founder of Dalibo, a French PostgreSQL company and one the sysadmins behind the www.postgresql.fr platform.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Dan Langille

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Dan Langille: I am Canadian. Born in Nova Scotia and attended high school and university in Ottawa. I moved to New Zealand shortly after graduation. After 16 years in Wellington, NZ, where I got into Open Souce via FreeBSD, I moved back to Ottawa. I lived there for 6 years, then moved to USA. I now live in a small town outside Philadelphia.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Regina Obe

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Regina Obe: I live in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). I was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1971 and spent the first 7 years of my life there. My father is Nigerian and mother is American. I moved to the US at age of 7ish when my mother started her medical residency. I think I’m still considered a dual citizen though I haven’t been back to Nigeria since.

Reading time: 11 minutes

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Renee Phillips

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Renee Phillips: I am a hand knitter and a competent home cook. Living in NYC means I don’t have a lot of storage so I make a lot of socks because they take up time and not much space. I have been looking into and complaining about data quality for a few decades now, so PostgreSQL is the perfect tool for me to use every day.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Charles Clavadetscher

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Charles Clavadetscher: I am a Swiss citizen living and working in Zurich at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) where I take care of the databases of the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF).

Reading time: 8 minutes

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Michael Brewer

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Michael Brewer: I live in Athens, Georgia (USA), the city where I was born (and have lived in or near most of my life). I’m a Web Developer Principal for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Georgia, my alma mater. I also play bass trombone in the Athens Symphony, am principal conductor of the Classic City Band (Georgia’s oldest continuously-operating community band), Director of Music at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, music director of the Athens Brass Choir, and also conduct a new local opera company, RespirOpera.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Tatsuo Ishii

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Tatsuo Ishii: I live in Kanagawa prefecture of Japan, which is adjacent to Tokyo, with my wife. I love to walk beaches, listen to music (classical, rock and Jazz) from my favorite audio set (mainly consisting of TANNOY speakers and Luxman amplifiers), and read Sci-Fi books. I am working for SRA OSS, Inc. Japan as a branch manager and an engineer since 2005.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Gilberto Castillo

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Gilberto Castillo: My name is Gilberto, I live in Havana, Cuba. I’m married, with three sons. I love sports and I exercise together with my sons. My favorite sports are handball, baseball and basketball. I also enjoy dancing to all kind of music. Havana is the Capital of all Cubans, my recommendation to everyone is: do not miss the opportunity to visit the history places Havana has to offer!

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Kohei Kaigai

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Kohei Kaigai: I grew up in Shiga, Japan. It is known as the lake-side area of the greatest lake in our nation. I studied computer science and business administration at the University of Tsukuba. After that, I started my first career at NEC, as a developer of Linux kernel.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Simon Riggs

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Simon Riggs: I live in the UK with my wife, and spend a lot of time with my extended family, though “kids” have now grown up and left home. Born a Londoner, so my favourite drink is Tea, but I’m partly Irish with a small hint of Chilean blood.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Tomas Vondra

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Tomas Vondra: My name is Tomas Vondra, I live in Prague, and I’m a PostgreSQL user, developer, contributor and committer. I work for 2ndQuadrant, one of the companies contributing to PostgreSQL and providing services related to it, and I’m also involved in the local PostgreSQL community in various ways. Aside from that I do have various sports-related hobbies - cycling for example.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Oleksii Kliukin

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Oleksii Kliukin: Hi, my name is Oleksii (people also call me Alex). I work as a Database Engineer at Adjust.com, improving their PostgreSQL infrastructure. Before that, I worked on Patroni and the Postgres Operator at Zalando. I’m originally from Simferopol, Ukraine. I moved to Germany around 7 years ago. I live in Berlin with my wife and two sons, three years old and 7 months old. When I have time, I enjoy spending it outdoors, hiking, cycling, or running.

Reading time: 8 minutes

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Paul Ramsey

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Paul Ramsey: I’m a middle-aged guy from the blessed west coast of Canada, where the sky and the mountains meet the sea. Raising a family takes up most of my time, but I’ve managed to carve out personal time for fitness recently, and exploring the area on my bike. I grew up in the interior of British Columbia, but have lived in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, for most of my adult life.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Dimitri Fontaine

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Dimitri Fontaine: Hi! My name is Dimitri Fontaine and I’m French, currently living in the greater Paris area. When I’m not sitting in front of a computer for work, I like to be with my kids. We play board games, have fun chats, watch movies together… well or at least try to find a single movie that we would each enjoy watching… I also play the guitar.

Reading time: 9 minutes

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Fabrízio de Royes Mello

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Fabrízio de Royes Mello: Hi, I’m Fabrízio. I was born and live in the southern part of Brazil, in a city called Bagé. It’s close to the border with Uruguay. I’m married and have four daughters. Also I have three cats, one dog and two mices. I love to spend time with my family and friends. I like watching movies, series and sports (soccer, martial arts, volleyball).

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Jimmy Angelakos

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Jimmy Angelakos: I grew up in Athens, Greece, then went to Scotland to study at the University of Aberdeen. After 15 years of working in the industry with Open Source tools, I found myself working with my favourite database, as Senior PostgreSQL Architect at 2ndQuadrant in Edinburgh. Music is a big part of my life, I love listening to diverse genres, a long time ago I played in a rock band, and in the more recent past I presented a music-oriented radio show.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Melanie Plageman

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Melanie Plageman: I am a developer working on Greenplum at VMware. I live in the Bay Area. In my spare time, I enjoy coding side projects, taking computer science courses, running, traveling, and baking. I am an adventurous eater and love trying new foods.

Reading time: 10 minutes

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Mark Wong

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Mark Wong: I am currently living in and am originally from Portland, Oregon. I am working for 2ndQuadrant who provides a range of Postgres products and services. I’ve taken up a variety of hobbies over the years. A couple of my favorites are medium and large format photography, and crocheting stuffed animals. You may be familiar with one particularly cute little elephant endearingly named Chelnik by Gabrielle Roth.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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Ilaria Battiston

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Ilaria Battiston: I am Ilaria, a 22-year-old Italian student currently studying Data Engineering at TU Munich. My main hobby, original enough, is open source advocacy: volunteering, contributing and learning. I am incredibly passionate about databases and algorithms, hoping to be able to work with them for life. I also love travelling and cooking :)

Reading time: 4 minutes

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Sarah Conway Schnurr

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Sarah Conway Schnurr: I am from Southern California, where I’ve spent most of my free time hiking in the beautiful local deserts and pursuing many creative endeavors. Primarily, I am a software engineer & front-end website developer at Crunchy Data, a violin teacher & violin/viola performer, as well as a creator of zero-waste and all-natural homemade goods. I am also the co-parent of four beautiful cats, as well as the many adoptive fosters, strays, and friendly neighborhood cats that my husband and I visit on our daily walks.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Dave Cramer

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Dave Cramer: I’m a Canadian currently hiding from winter in a warm southern state. As for hobbies: I started taking my car to the race track to see how well I understood physics. Turns out the theory and application are more interesting when you are the object in motion. I’ve been involved in PostgreSQL since around 2000. Through reading and answering many emails on the JDBC list I found myself contributing code to it and eventually maintaining it. I consider myself to be very fortunate to be able to make a living from PostgreSQL.

Reading time: 4 minutes

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Christophe Pettus

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Christophe Pettus: I’m a native Californian. My background is kind of random: I’ve been involved in electronic music, movies, writing comics, historical recreation, flying, and a lot of strange eCommerce companies. My first ‘real’ job was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, so I can legitimately claim to be a rocket scientist. Through a long, complicated set of events involving my happening to own a professional video camera, I’ve ended up as CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc., a consultancy supporting PostgreSQL.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Joe Conway

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Joe Conway: I grew up in New York, went to undergraduate university at Virginia Tech, and rode nuclear submarines for a few years. After that I married and spent many years in Southern California raising a family and working. A couple of years ago my wife and I moved to Florida to be closer to family. For the past 5 years I have been VP of Engineering at Crunchy Data.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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Lætitia Avrot

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PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Lætitia Avrot: I’m Lætitia from France, near Lyon. If you can’t say my name because it’s too difficult, it’s ok. You may use ‘Joy’ if it’s easier for you. I like savate boxing, running and learning. I love listening to both rock and classical music, as long as it sounds ‘positive’.

Reading time: 7 minutes

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