PGDay Israel 2023

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.

Andrey Borodin

Andrey is an engineer, RDBMS development team lead at Yandex, Ph. D. He has been researching data indexing since 2008. He teaches at the Ural Federal University and Yandex School for Data Analysis.

Tomas Vondra

Tomas is a long-term member of the community, contributor and committer. He works for EDB, focuses mainly on improvements related to performance, query planinng, indexing, benchmarking and so on.

Vadim Yatsenko

Vadim is VLDB Architect, Co-Founder and CEO at Tantor Labs. Vadim's major specialization - high load projects design and development, using PostgreSQL as a main database. Vadim is Co-organizer of PGBootcamp.ru initiative. He actively participates in PostgreSQL Community in Israel. Vadim started using PostgreSQL in 2008.

Alexander Kukushkin

During his professional career, Alexander touched PostgreSQL from all possible sides: as a Web Developer, as System Administrator, and as a Database Engineer now. Since 2015 he has been working on the Patroni project and achieved quite a big success with it. Besides that, Alexander periodically reports bugs and contributes patches to PostgreSQL and some other open-source projects (usually Postgres related).

Divya Sharma

Divya is a Sr. RDS PostgreSQL SA, working with AWS for over 6 years now. She has helped several customers migrate to AWS RDS PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL from commercial database engines. Her day to day role also involves helping customers optimize their PostgreSQL workloads for better performance.

Idan Assulin

Idan is the CTO and Co-Founder of Memphis{dev}, a real-time data processing platform that was created with the aim of making the development of streaming applications more streamlined and manageable. He lives in Israel, and happily married to Linoy, with thier son Liam by their side. His journey as a software engineer began in high school where he developed a love for coding that has only grown stronger over the years. Idan is a technology enthusiast and problem solver at heart, always seeking out new and challenging projects.

Alon Spiegel

Alon has begun his career as a software engineer at Mamram (programmers trek). He started his DBA journey in 1996 while serving as a software engineer and a team leader. During his studies he worked as a DBA consultant for a company called Xpert (later acquired by One1). In 2007 he Co. founded Brillix, a professional services company, specializing in data management systems (DMS), Identity Management, and cloud/dev OPS. Alon is leading the DMS department and is fluent in PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL, MongoDB and Redis and more.

Andrei Lepikhov

Andrei is the lead developer of Postgres Professional. Since 2004 he has been working on database systems. Working with PostgreSQL since 2017, He participated in a bunch of projects: Multimaster, Shardman, AQO, sr_plan, etc. The main area of interest is auto-tuning methods on queries and a whole database instance.