Douglas Hunley is a Data Platform Reliability Engineer with 13+ years building and automating resilient PostgreSQL infrastructure, evolving from Oracle DBA and Linux sysadmin roots into a specialist in Postgres automation and high-availability architectures. He has led automation teams and authored enterprise-grade Ansible solutions and security guidance, including DISA STIG and CIS Benchmark work for PostgreSQL. At Crunchy Data he helped design self-healing, monitored clusters and now continues that trajectory at Supabase while maintaining the community.postgresql Ansible collection for Red Hat. A long-time Gentoo Linux user and OSS advocate, he blends deep systems-level instincts with pragmatic automation practices to reduce toil and improve reliability. Based in Canal Winchester, Ohio, he balances engineering leadership with active open-source stewardship and an unusually broad history across DBMS, systems, and security that informs practical, secure platform design.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Information Systems at DeVry Institute of Technology
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Douglas Hunley - Data Platform Reliability Engineer