Gianni Ciolli
Global VP, Practice Lead High Availability at EDB
Germany
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Top SchoolGianni Ciolli is a seasoned database architect and technology leader, currently Global VP and Practice Lead for High Availability at EDB, with a 15+ year global track record advising on PostgreSQL, replication and disaster recovery. Author of the PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook and its five predecessors, he combines practical production-grade design with a strong teaching and speaking presence worldwide. His background is unusually deep: a PhD in mathematics with peer-reviewed publications informs research-level expertise in formal proof, symbolic computation and algebraic geometry, which he applies to rigorous database and HA engineering. He has managed professional services and solutions architecture since 2008, leading multi-country teams and large customer engagements for enterprise Postgres deployments. Fluent in open-source ecosystems and functional languages (Haskell, OCaml, Scheme), he also brings hands-on IAM and PostGIS geospatial experience, making him equally at home in applied math, tooling and real-world operational engineering.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D. Mathematics, Ph. D. Mathematics at Università degli Studi di FirenzeLiceo Scientifico
English, Italian, Portuguese, German, French
Github Skills (11)
recovery9
edb9
barman7
backup7
postgresql5
disaster-recovery5
management5
repmgr5
failover4
replication4
cdc2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gcedb/pgChess
Jun 2022 - Jun 2023
software that plays chess written on top of PostgreSQL only
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year
postgresqlon-top
gcedb/pg2podg
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
A PostgreSQL extension for two-player open deterministic games
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
gamegamespostgresql-extensiondeterministictwo-player
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