Speaker Bureau

In order to help with the challenge of finding speakers for meetups please add your name to this page if you are willing to speak at a meetup. At a minimum add your name, topic(s) and timezone. Feel free to add anything else you feel is relevant.

Please use the IANA database name for your time zone. Please use a comma-space list of languages that you can deliver talks in comfortably. The space after the comma is important for help in searching for a language code.

For user group organizers who'd like to contact a speaker, please email the PgUS User Group Committee (ugcomm at PostgreSQL dot us), and we'll forward the request to the speaker.

Speaker Bureau

Name	Time zone	Topics	Language	Mentor new speakers?	Willing to travel?
Alicja Kucharczyk	CE(S)T	Postgres tuning, Oracle to Postgres migrations, Azure, Citus		Yes
Álvaro Herrera	Europe/Berlin	Postgres tuning, MVCC/vacuuming, Partitioning, Postgres hacking, community
Andreas ads Scherbaum	CE(S)T	PostgreSQL, Data Types, Community, Migration, Ansible (Talks)		Yes	Yes
Andrew Dunstan	EST	PostgreSQL, vacuuming and freezing, Data Types, Foreign Data Wrappers, SSL, Pgbouncer			Yes
Ashutosh Bapat	Asia/Kolkata	PostgreSQL Architecture, distributed postgresql, logical replication, partitioning, horizontal scalability		Yes	Yes
Boriss Mejías	CET	JSON, ENUM, replicationt
Bruce Momjian	EST	PostgreSQL Administration, Extended, Internals, Performance, Project, SQL, Open Source		Yes	Yes
Cédric Villemain	CE(S)T	PostgreSQL Architecture, High Availability, Distributed database, Extensions, Capacity planning, "IO" topics		Yes
Christophe Pettus	PST	Configuration and Tuning, Query Optimization, DBA Tasks and Mentoring, Disaster Recovery and Reliability Planning
Daniel Westermann	CE(S)T	PostgreSQL, DBA related topics, query tuning		Yes
Dave Cramer	EST	Java and PostgreSQL, Logical Decoding		Yes
Dave Page	GMT	pgAdmin, PostgreSQL project organisation/infrastructure
David Christensen	CST	Replication, Bucardo, CTEs.
David Fetter		PostgreSQL as a control plane, Fun with Foreign Data Wrappers, Hacking for Beginners
Derk van Veen	Europe/Amsterdam	Performance for devs, HOT Upadates and fill factor, MVCC model, High Availability (and debugging), Data corruptions, Partitioning in Postgres, Why Partitioning performance can be poor		Yes	Yes
Devrim Gündüz	GMT	PostgreSQL DBA topics, installation, advocacy, extensions, replication.	Turkish, English		Yes
Dimitri Fontaine	CE(S)T	PostgreSQL, High Availability, pg_auto_failover, pgloader, PostgreSQL for Developers, PostgreSQL Architectures in Production, Data Modeling		Yes
Elizabeth Christensen	CST	Postgres Newbies, PostGIS basics, DBA basics
Euler Taveira	America/Sao_Paulo	Logical Replication, Extensions, Tuning, Community
Federico Campoli	CE(S)T	PostgreSQL, DBA related topics, query tuning, pg_chameleon, patroni, disaster recovery		Yes
Gianni Ciolli	GMT	Several topics, including: Physical/Logical Replication, Backup&restore, Query optimization, Database administration
Hari Kiran	Asia/Kolkata	PostgreSQL, Replication, Partitioning, Oracle Migration, Monitoring, DBA
Harry Arroyo		PostgreSQL with Laravel, Django, Java, IT Security Expert, TI Mentor, Sysadmin, FullStack Developer, Hacker, App Developer (Android and iOS), DBA and other Stuff
Ilya Kosmodemiansky	CET	Community, Latest in Postgres, Linux internals, Optimisation	English, German	Yes	Yes
Jan Karremans	CE(S)T	Most topics, including Architecture, HA, Postgres in Kubernetes, PostgreSQL use-cases, Proprietary vs. PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL history and extensibility		Yes	Yes
Jennifer Scheuerell	PST	Migrations, PostgreSQL and Django		Yes
Jimmy Angelakos	GMT	PostgreSQL (performance, best practices, DBA), Full-Text Search, ETL with Python, Django		Yes	Yes
Joe Conway	EST	Security (variety of subtopics), Analytics (using PL/R, PostGIS, Python), Functions, Text Search and Pattern Matching, Shell Scripting with Postgres, Postgres Intro, Community and Development		Yes
Jonathan Katz	EST	SCRAM, PostgreSQL + Kubernetes, PostgreSQL 13, Range Types + Applications, Building an App with a bunch of Postgres features (Logical decoding, CTEs, functions, range types, etc.), Data Types
Karen Jex	CET	PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, DBA roles, Oracle topics, Multitenancy, Postgres arts and crafts		Yes
Keith Fiske		Partitioning, Extensions, Administration, PG History & Features, Monitoring
Luigi Nardi	CET	Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, PostgreSQL Performance, Parameter Tuning, Self-tuning Databases, Autotuning, Cloud Spend Optimization
Lætitia Avrot	CE(S)T	PostgreSQL, Postgres Women, psql, BDR		Yes
Martín Marqués	America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires	PostgreSQL, replication, backups, autovacuum
Muhammad Haroon	Asia/Karachi	PostgreSQL, High Availability, Logical Replication, Vacuum/AutoVacuum, Database Administration, Extensions, Disaster Recovery
Nikhil Sontakke	Asia/Kolkata	PostgreSQL Architecture, Logical Decoding, BDR, PGLogical
Pavan Deolasee	Asia/Kolkata	PostgreSQL Internals, Transaction Management, Performance, BDR
Roberto Mello	America/Mountain	Postgres Intro, Community and Development, Kubernetes, DBA roles, Security (intro and subtopics), Python, Multitenancy, Migration	English, Portuguese, Spanish	Yes	Yes
Sameer Malik	PST	PostgreSQL, Oracle, migration		Yes
Stefan Fercot	Europe/Brussels	pgBackRest, PostgreSQL backups, replication, high availability	English, French	Yes	Yes
Stephen Frost	America/New_York	Security, PostgreSQL, other stuff
Tom Kincaid	EST	High Availability, Deploying at Scale, MVCC, Partitioning, Performance Tuning
Tomas Vondra	Europe/Prague	PostgreSQL, performance, benchmarking, various extensions, hacking, community stuff	English, Czech	Yes	Yes
Umair Shahid	GMT+5	PostgreSQL use cases, licensing, clustering		Yes
Vibhor Kumar	EDT	PostgreSQL Use-Cases, Performance Tuning, High Availability, Distributed Database, Extensions, PostgreSQL @Scale, MVCC, PostgreSQL Architecture, Logical Replication, Database Administration		Yes
Vik Fearing	Europe/Paris	SQL Standard, Advanced SQL, PostgreSQL (all topics), Community and Conference organization	English, French, Esperanto	Yes	Yes
William Ivanski		PostgreSQL, High Availability, BDR, Database Administration, Oracle Migration, Python