Ants Aasma
Lead Database Consultant
Tallinn Metropolitan Area Estonia
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RockstarAnts Aasma is a Lead Database Consultant with 12 years of hands-on experience architecting and hardening PostgreSQL deployments from Tallinn, Estonia. At CYBERTEC he focuses on production-grade database reliability, performance tuning, and HA strategies for complex systems. He contributes to the well-known open-source Patroni project, implementing replication features, certificate handling, and watchdog improvements that strengthen PostgreSQL high-availability behaviour. Comfortable in both consultancy and engineering roles, he translates operational challenges into practical configuration and automation changes. Colleagues rely on him for deep PostgreSQL internals knowledge combined with a pragmatic approach to running resilient database services.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (46)
algorithm10
exceptions10
postgresql10
python10
high-availability10
orm10
sqlalchemy10
sql10
stacktrace10
shell10
list-comprehension9
geometry9
back-end-development9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
patroni/patroni
Aug 2016 - Sep 2022
A template for PostgreSQL High Availability with Etcd, Consul, ZooKeeper, or Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 20 PRs, 186 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ants primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Patroni project, focusing on PostgreSQL high availability features. Their work involved implementing and configuring PostgreSQL binary locations, modifying replication slot names, and adding synchronous replication support. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to certificate replacement, postmaster process handling, and made improvements to the watchdog functionality and configuration.
etcdzookeeperavailabilityhaproxykubernetes
cybertec-postgresql/patroni-packaging
Dec 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:15 releases, 21 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 5 months
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