Tag: france

20 entries

Hécate

PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Hécate: My name is Hécate, I am 28 years old and from the Parisian suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis. I work as a backend Haskell developer. I’m also a musician, and have been for twenty years now, so music is a big part of my life. I use they/them pronouns and farcical amounts of caffeine to retain human form.

Reading time: 4 minutes

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Sébastien Lardière

PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Sébastien Lardière: My name is Sébastien Lardière, and I am from France, near the city of Clisson. The place is best known for the Hell Fest, a big metal festival, even if there are a lot of other things to do and see; and drink.

Reading time: 6 minutes

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Wilfried Roset

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

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Étienne Bersac

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

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Cédric Duprez

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

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Laura Ricci

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 (170)   dalibo (8)   communication (1)   france (20)   cooperative (2)  
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Philippe Beaudoin

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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Jehan-Guillaume De Rorthais

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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Jean-Christophe Arnu

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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Carole Arnaud

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

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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Damien Clochard

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

Tags:   postgresql (170)   pg day (1)   data masking (1)   anonymization (1)   dalibo (8)   france (20)  
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Lætitia Avrot

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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