Georg Traar
Senior Product Manager, Postgres at Aiven
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolGeorg Traar is a Senior Product Manager specializing in Postgres and distributed databases, with nine years of experience building data products that bridge engineering, analytics, and user experience. He led CrateDB Cloud product strategy and DBaaS launches, drove PLG efforts that doubled activation and SaaS revenue, and contributed hands-on to CrateDB’s PostgreSQL compatibility and pg_catalog enhancements. Comfortable across databases, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (dbt, Airflow, Kafka, AWS/Azure), he combines technical depth with product vision to simplify complex systems into pragmatic solutions. At Crate.io he moved between executive strategy, customer engineering, and backend contributions—an uncommon blend that makes him equally fluent in go-to-market tactics and low-level DB internals. Now at Aiven, he continues to shape Postgres products with a practical, end-to-end mindset rooted in both research and production engineering.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyDipl. Ing, (eq. Master of Science), Industrial Management and Business Administration, Dipl. Ing, (eq. Master of Science), Industrial Management and Business Administration at Montanuniversität Leoben
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Github Skills (19)
postgresql10
cratedb10
databases10
database-administration10
java10
javas10
sql10
database10
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
elasticsearch6
crate6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
crate/crate
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:169 reviews, 28 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Georg primarily focused on improving the CrateDB database by addressing authentication, information schema enhancements, and PostgreSQL compatibility. Their contributions included adding features to the information schema, fixing bugs related to date formatting, implementing new functions, and adding new tables to the pg_catalog schema. The user's work involved modifying code across server-side Java files, database schema definitions, and documentation updates, with a significant focus on improving compatibility with PostgreSQL.
dbmscratedbon-toptime-seriesindustrial-iot
proddata/node-cratedb
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch, 16 tags in 3 months
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