PGDay Israel 2022

Bruce Momjian

Bruce is Co-founder and Core Team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He has been employed by EDB since 2006. He has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley.

Alexander Korotkov

Alexander is a PostgreSQL Major Contributor & Committer and Ph.D. in computer science. He contributed to many fields of PostgreSQL, including indexing, statistics, concurrency, extensibility, and more. Alexander was a co-founder of a successful Postgres-oriented company. Now he is the inventor behind OrioleDB, who seeks to deliver solutions to PostgreSQL's wicked problems.

Umair Shahid

Umair is PostgreSQL Code of Conduct Committee Chair and the Head of PostgreSQL at Percona and is based in Islamabad, Pakistan. He is a veteran of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, contributing to the community as well as driving commercial success. He is the principal organizer for Islamabad and Dubai PostgreSQL Users' Groups.

Gilles Darold

Gilles is a PostgreSQL expert and developer. He is involved in the world of PostgreSQL and Open Source for over 25 years and has worked on many different projects. He is also an expert in Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations and the creator of the well known tool Ora2Pg. Gilles started using PostgreSQL in 1995, and since then he has created some well known tools around PostgreSQL like pgBadger for log analysis, pgCluu for performance analysis or pgFormatter. He has also written various PostgreSQL extensions.

Andrey Borodin

Andrey is an engineer, Sr.SDE at Redshift distributed systems(AWS), Ph. D. He has been researching data indexing since 2008. He teaches at the Ural Federal University and Yandex School for Data Analysis.

Eldad Farkash

Eldad is a serial entrepreneur, investor and big data thought leader. Prior to Firebolt, he founded Sisense Inc, a high growth analytics unicorn, served on its board of directors and as its CTO for 14 years. Eldad is a World Technology Awards fellow, and won the award in 2013 for his In-Chip technology invention.

Shawn McCoy

Shawn is a Senior Database Engineer for RDS & Aurora PostgreSQL. After being an Oracle DBA for many years he became one of the founding engineers for the launch of RDS PostgreSQL in 2013. Since then he has been improving the service to help customers succeed and scale their applications.

Dmitry Romanoff

Dmitry is DevOps Data Tech Lead at at JFrog. He is an experienced, dedicated, and highly motivated DevOps Data Lead, Cloud Architect, and DBA. He has extensive experience in the design, development, implementation, and management of large, complex, high-performance, and mission-critical system/software/cloud-based solutions. Dmitry has been giving lectures at conferences and publishing articles and blogs.

Daniil Zakhlystov

Daniil is a software engineer at the Data platform department of CloudIL. He is also participating as a mentor in Google Summer of Code at the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. Daniil is one of the core maintainers of the WAL-G project - an archival restoration tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MS SQL Server, GreenplumDB, and other databases.

Eyal Trabelsi

Eyal is a data architect at bigabid and an independent consultant. He is very interested in databases, machine learning systems, and big data architectures, and making those performant and easy to use. Eyal loves to share his passion with others by organizing Apache Kafka TLV, Pycon Israel, lecturing, blogging, or having a cup of coffee with them.