Gabriele Bartolini
Ambassador at CloudNativePG
Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolGabriele Bartolini is a seasoned cloud-native and database leader with 16 years of experience driving PostgreSQL adoption and operational excellence. As VP of CloudNative at EDB and co-founder/maintainer of the CloudNativePG operator, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps work with strategic product and community leadership. He has a long track record building 24/7 global support teams, shipping Kubernetes-certified PostgreSQL operators, and improving business continuity for large-scale databases. An active PostgreSQL contributor and Data on Kubernetes Ambassador, he’s been advocating stateful workloads in cloud-native environments since 2019. Based in Tuscany, he pairs technical depth—refactoring backup/recovery, enhancing logging, and improving operator status—with organizational leadership skills honed through a master’s in Organizational Leadership. Notably, his work helped position EDB and earlier 2ndQuadrant as early Kubernetes Certified Service Providers for PostgreSQL.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Accounting and Computer Programming, High School Diploma, Accounting and Computer Programming at Istituto Tecnico Commerciale Paolo DagomariBA, Statistics and Information Technology, BA, Statistics and Information Technology at Università degli Studi di FirenzeMaster’s Degree, Organizational Leadership, Master’s Degree, Organizational Leadership at University of Warwick - Warwick Business SchoolInformation Technology, Information Technology at Monash University
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
postgresql10
databases10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
database10
operator10
yaml9
docker8
sql8
dockers8
high-availability7
failover7
disaster-recovery7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
CloudNativePG is a comprehensive platform designed to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments, covering the entire operational lifecycle from initial deployment to ongoing maintenance
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:635 reviews, 243 commits, 514 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gabriele primarily contributed to the infrastructure and code related to the CloudNativePG operator, focusing on PostgreSQL database management within Kubernetes. Their work involved modifying the operator's image URLs, refactoring code related to backup and recovery processes, and updating file paths. Additionally, the user addressed documentation, enhanced JSON logging for PostgreSQL 14, and improved the status command.
operatorfailovercoversjson-loggingstreaming
EnterpriseDB/cnp-bench
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Benchmarking guidelines for Cloud Native PostgreSQL
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
benchmarkingbenchmarkkubernetesguidelinespostgresql
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