Greg Clough
Principal DBRE at DRW
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGreg Clough is a Principal Database Reliability Engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience and a decade focused on cloud-native database automation for PostgreSQL and Oracle on AWS. He combines deep operational expertise—covering break‑fix, performance tuning, and licensing reviews—with a strong automation mindset, authoring Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible solutions used across large enterprises. As prime maintainer of the widely used ANXS/postgresql Ansible role he’s repeatedly demonstrated version-aware PostgreSQL configuration and security best practices in open source. Having led small DBRE teams and owned UK timezone on-call for trading systems, he’s comfortable in high-stakes, low-latency environments and in negotiating technical decisions with senior leadership. Uncommonly, his background spans both legacy Oracle migrations and modern Aurora/Postgres architectures, giving him a pragmatic perspective on cost, compliance and cloud migration tradeoffs.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Management Management, Graduate Certificate in Management Management at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor of Informatics Computing & Microelectronics, Bachelor of Informatics Computing & Microelectronics at Griffith UniversitySenior Certificate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Senior Certificate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Yeronga State High School
English
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Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
ansible-galaxy10
database-administration10
postgresql10
ansible-role10
ansible10
jinja29
templating9
database6
pgbouncer6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ANXS/postgresql
Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
Fairly full featured Ansible role for Postgresql.
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 108 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Greg's contributions center around configuring and adapting PostgreSQL, specifically focusing on its configuration files. They've modified templates for `postgresql.conf` across various PostgreSQL versions, demonstrating a deep understanding of version-specific features and settings. The changes involve enabling features such as archiving and configuring authentication schemes, which highlight a focus on database administration and security best practices.
full-featuredansibleansible-rolepostgresqlrole
gclough/postgresql
Mar 2018 - Mar 2024
Fairly full featured Ansible role for Postgresql.
Contributions:335 pushes, 101 branches, 2 comments in 6 years 1 month
full-featuredansibleansible-rolepostgresqlrole
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