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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!
Tags:   postgresql    community    database-experiments    russian    postgres-ai    database-lab    change-management   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    postgres    greenplum    vmware    code    code-review    community    conference    pgeu    pgconf.eu    stockholm pug    pivotal   
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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).
Tags:   postgresql    pgeu    committer    core    blamemagnus   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    edb    pgadmin    core   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    nyc    consulting    new york    wisconsin    frisbee    mathematics   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    ukraine    slovakia    austria    community    development    cybertec    friends    pg_timetable    pgxmock    patroni    windows    postgres-europe    vscode   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    community    enterprisedb    edb    london    friends    rpm    redhat    fedora    centos   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    opensource    python    patroni    belgium    ovhcloud   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    postgrespro    gsoc    education    russia   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    japan    contributor    fujitsu    video-game    virtual-reality    visually-impaired   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    postgreswomen    pgwomen    marketing    advocacy   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    explain    perl    postgresql    psql    linux   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    sharing    community    databases   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    open source    enterprisesoftware    road-biking    hiking   
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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 ;-)
Tags:   postgresql    fosdem    pgconf-eu    pgconf-de    telegram    world-of-tanks    diablo   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    india    expat    japan    coffee   
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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 :-)
Tags:   postgresql    dalibo    pgday    conference    conferences    events    france    coc    commitment    crochet    knitting    friends   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    loxodata    france    slony    training    running   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    switzerland    2ndquadrant    edb    high-availability    logical-replication    pgtap    swiss-pgday   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    opensource    postgres-meetup    speaker    cybertec    tooling   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    postgres    generalbits    pgwomen    ingres    informix    illustra    ucberkeley    millscollege   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    belgium    edb    badminton    pgbackrest   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    pg day    data masking    anonymization    dalibo    france   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    pgcon    freebsd    bsdcan   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    gis    postgis    pgrouting    osgeo    postgres    postgresql    usa    boston    nigeria    mobilitydb    ogr_fdw    vic-20   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    nyc    speaker    data quality    qa    conference    meetup    welcoming    knitting    postgreswomen    constraints    database design    datatypes   
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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).
Tags:   postgresql    swiss pgday    swiss postgresql users group    switzerland    range types    json    leatherwork   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    php    sql    music   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    sraoss    postgresql    pgpool-ii    pgcon    pgconf,asia    pgconf.eu    pgconf.russia   
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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!
Tags:   postgresql    diploma    postgresql    open source databases technologies    pg_mask    traduction site    events   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    heterodb    japan    pgsql-hackers    parallelization    custom-scan-provides    foreign-data-wrapper    gpu    nvme    pg_strom    postgis    selinux   
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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.
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    adjust    zalando    patroni    postgres-operator    simferopol    berlin    ukraine    germany    istore    pg_view    pageinspect    patch    sql    commit-fest    community    fosdem    pgcon    pgconf-europe    zheap    pg-cryogen    postgres-fdw    lailover    logical-replication    vscode    git    hackers    pgsql-hackers    pgsql-bugs    postgres-meetup    kubernetes   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    canada    gis    postgis    extensions   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    extensions    event triggers    pgloader    pg_auto_failover    fault tolerance    common lisp    conference    the art of postgresql    postgresql book    book   
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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).
Tags:   postgresql    databases    opensource    community    commitment    research    development    life    timbira   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    scotland    greece    aberdeen    athens    edinburgh    2ndquadrant    dmponline    pglogical    pg_trgm    parallelization    partitioning    postgresql-europe    postgres-europe    open-source    fosdem    fosscomm    fosdem-pgday    pgconf-europe    postgres-london    pgsql-general    pgsql-hackers    pgsql-admin    omnidb    geany    generated-columns    psycopg2    vagrant    django    nano    kubernetes    psql    replication    git    postgis    linux    pitr    l10n   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    inclusivity    community    opensource    diversity    hackers    commit-fest    commit fest    postgreswomen    vmware    pgcon    databases    patch    code-review   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    postgres    pg_top    crochet    julia    pl/julia    2ndquadrant    pgus    amigurumi    pg_systat    pg_proctab   
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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 :)
Tags:   postgresql    student    gsoc    opensource    learning    databases    inclusivity    code    postgreswomen   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    postgreswomen    music    opensource    california    crunchy    conferences    community    diversity    websites   
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    high performance driving    canada    florida    jdbc    java    cdc   
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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.
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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.
Tags:   postgresql    community    family    friends    code    conferences    r    postgis    selinux    submarines    foss    crunchy   
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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’.
Tags:   postgresql    postgreswomen    gis    france    split brain    music    gsoc    coc    pgeu   
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