Feike Steenbergen
Database Engineer
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFeike Steenbergen is a seasoned Database Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating high-volume PostgreSQL systems for retail, finance, and cloud-native customers. He specializes in HA PostgreSQL on Kubernetes—helping design operators, Helm charts, and Docker images—and was part of the team behind Patroni and contributions to Zalando’s Spilo, both well-known in the Postgres HA space. At TigerData (creators of TimescaleDB) he focuses on making Postgres easy to run and observe in Kubernetes, with work spanning Go operators, Grafana dashboards, Rust tooling for live patching, and robust backup/recovery. Known for pragmatic automation, he blends deep SQL and performance tuning with DevOps practices and a penchant for pushing SQL databases toward time-series use cases. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he also teaches PostgreSQL operation and advanced SQL techniques, bringing a curious, philosophical background to practical system design.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at University of Groningen
English, German, Dutch
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Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
docker10
postgresql10
python10
apidoc10
scripting10
high-availability10
charts10
testing10
http10
bash10
etcd10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
timescale/helm-charts
Aug 2019 - Jan 2022
Configuration and Documentation to run TimescaleDB in your Kubernetes cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 releases, 21 reviews, 216 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Feike primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the Helm charts. They implemented a script to generate deployment-specific secrets, updated the build process to accommodate MacOS, and integrated shellcheck for linting the shell scripts. The user also added tests and CI targets to ensure the reliability and maintainability of the Helm charts.
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zalando/spilo
Apr 2015 - Sep 2016
Highly available elephant herd: HA PostgreSQL cluster using Docker
Role in this project:DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:208 commits, 94 PRs, 166 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Feike contributed to the development and maintenance of the `zalando/spilo` repository, a highly available PostgreSQL cluster using Docker. Their work focused on automating deployment and configuration through shell scripts and integrating with external systems, such as etcd and DNS. The user added scripts to create SSL certificates for enhanced security within the Spilo cluster. Additional contributions included the implementation of a python script to keep DNS records in sync with an etcd cluster and the modification of deployment scripts.
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