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| Chris Travers chris.travers (at) gmail.com |
Chris Travers has 25 years of experience with PostgreSQL in many roles from DBA to developer and is active on commitfiests. He also actively presents at conferences around the world. He is deeply committed to helping expand Postgres worldwide. He has been involved in leading other open source software projects through the years, including LedgerSMB which he helped found. He currently lives in Indonesia for family reasons and believes in helping ensure that the PostgreSQL community and we can come together across diverse cultural and other backgrounds in our community to build the economic commons that economically support so many of us. |
| Floor Drees (Chair) floordrees (at) gmail.com |
Floor Drees is a Principal Program Manager at EDB, a member of the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Committee, a CloudNativePG contributor, and an organizer for PGDay Lowlands. She's also a co-chair for the DevOpsDays organisation. |
| Gary Evans garyevans.pg (at) gmail.com |
Gary Evans is based in Australia and works extensively with enterprise PostgreSQL deployments, supporting organisations adopting PostgreSQL at scale while engaging closely with the open-source community. His work sits at the intersection of enterprise users and community practices, with a focus on professionalism, clear communication, and respectful collaboration. He helps organise PGDownUnder and contributes talks and participation at events such as FOSSASIA and various PostgreSQL Day (PGDay) events. He brings practical experience from leading distributed teams and handling sensitive issues, with a strong commitment to maintaining a safe, fair, and inclusive environment within the PostgreSQL community. |
| Hari Kiran hari.sysdba (at) gmail.com |
Hari Kiran is a PostgreSQL Evangelist at pgEdge and OpenSource DB, working with Customers on Distributed Multi-master PostgreSQL solutions. With extensive experience in the PostgreSQL ecosystem, Hari is passionate about helping businesses migrate to scalable and resilient Postgres architectures. A strong advocate for community building, Hari has played a key role in organizing and sponsoring PostgreSQL events, such as PGDay Hyderabad 2024 and PGConf India. He is committed to fostering growth and innovation within the Postgres community, combining technical expertise with a forward-looking vision for the future of open-source databases. |
| Karen Riggs kr17ggs (at) gmail.com |
Karen Riggs is now retired, but formerly worked in an operations and HR role for 2nd Quadrant until the acquisition by EDB. She then spent 6 months with EDB helping with the staff & financial transition. Before her work in the tech industry she spent 12 years in the NHS (National Health Service) as an Assistant Practitioner. Karen is based in the UK, and attends the annual PostgreSQL Europe Conference to meet with community members in-person. |
| Michael Goldberg mic.goldberg (at) gmail.com |
Michael Goldberg is a co-organizer of PGDay Israel conferences since 2017, co-founder of PostgreSQL Israeli Community, member of PG BootCamp initiative, PostgreSQL translator, part of the PostgreSQL press releases translation team, and maintainer of the PostgreSQL Israel and PGDay Israel websites. Michael is the Containers Product Architect at Spot by Netapp. |
| Pavel Luzanov pavel.luzanov (at) gmail.com |
Pavel Luzanov has been working with PostgreSQL at Postgres Professional since 2015. Before that, he spent over 20 years working with Oracle DBMS as an application developer, architect and project manager. At Postgres Professional, he specializes in educational projects: training courses, certification exams, blogging, books. Pavel is a regular speaker at the PGConf.Russia series of conferences. |
| Semab Tariq semab.tariq1 (at) gmail.com |
Semab Tariq is a Senior PostgreSQL Consultant at Stormatics, bringing over 8 years of experience in DevOps, software packaging, and machine learning. He began his career as a DevOps Engineer, focusing on the packaging of numerous PostgreSQL-related tools. His contributions include building and releasing PostgreSQL community installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux, as well as PgAdmin installers during his tenure at 2ndQuadrant and later at EnterpriseDB. In addition to his consulting work, Semab is an active member of the PostgreSQL community. He frequently speaks at international PostgreSQL conferences, writes technical blogs, and conducts webinars to share his expertise. |
| Simon Pane simon.pane (at) strategicdbs.com |
Simon Pane works as a Principal Consultant for Pythian, specializing in PostgreSQL and Oracle on-premises and in the cloud. Simon is located in Canada and has been working with relational databases for over 25 years. As well as having been heavily involved in the community as a regular presenter and blogger, he is a past user-group Board Director and has served as a volunteer member of several formal industry and community Advisory Boards. |