Jim Nasby
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJim Nasby is a seasoned database architect and PostgreSQL specialist with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, consulting, and operating data systems across startups and large enterprises. He has held senior roles from Sr. Database Engineer at AWS to Chief Data Architect at OpenSCG and founded a Postgres-focused consultancy, bringing deep expertise in data architecture, database design, and production reliability. A lifelong "data geek" who started with databases at 13, Jim combines practical engineering with a hacker’s curiosity—he contributes to PostgreSQL testing tooling like pgtap and has improved upgrade/testing automation. Based in Austin, he pairs systems-level knowledge (FreeBSD and distributed.net interests) with pragmatic consulting experience across the “big three” databases. Known for bridging hands-on implementation and architectural strategy, he excels at making complex data platforms resilient and testable.
7 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Illinios Institute of TechnologyBSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
sh10
test-framework10
script10
shell10
postgresql10
makefile10
scripting10
test-automation10
testing10
sql9
gnu-make9
databases8
sql-database8
database8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
theory/pgtap
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
PostgreSQL Unit Testing Suite
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 13 commits, 23 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the testing suite of the PostgreSQL unit testing framework. Their work involved writing and modifying shell scripts to test the `pgtap` extension, including testing major version upgrades using `pg_upgrade`. They also updated the test framework to run tests after upgrades and made improvements to the Makefile and testing scripts.
testing-frameworkunittestingtestingpsqltesting-suite
nasbyj/pgtap
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
PostgreSQL Unit Testing Suite
Contributions:138 pushes, 24 branches, 1 tag in 3 months
testingtesting-suiteunitpostgresqlsuite
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