Summary
Charly Batista is a seasoned database and systems leader with over two decades of experience and eight years in senior technical and regional leadership roles at Percona. As President of Associação PostgreSQL Brasil, he has driven PostgreSQL adoption across Latin America, organized PGConf Brazil, and built a 3,000+ active community that moved from mailing lists to Telegram. He combines deep hands-on expertise in PostgreSQL and MySQL with software development skills in C, Java, and Python, regularly teaching and mentoring DBAs and developers. Charly has designed highly available, scalable database architectures and led cross-functional teams through performance, backup, and security initiatives for enterprise environments. He pairs technical depth with public-facing advocacy—creating content, running meetups, and representing the community at conferences—helping translate open-source innovation into practical, production-grade systems. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, he brings a rare mix of practitioner, educator, and community-builder energy to database reliability and adoption.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Coursera
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese