Jimmy Angelakos
Staff Software Engineer at pgEdge
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJimmy Angelakos is a Staff Software Engineer and seasoned systems and database architect with 17 years of professional experience and 25+ years contributing to open-source, specializing in PostgreSQL high-availability, performance and large-scale deployments. A recognized PostgreSQL expert, contributor and conference speaker, he has advised Fortune 500 clients and fintech organisations on resilient data platforms and led database architecture across companies from EDB/2ndQuadrant to Deriv and pgEdge. He balances hands-on engineering—building tooling, SOPs and cloud migrations—with mentoring DBA teams and delivering five-nines availability solutions. Author of PostgreSQL Mistakes and co-author of the PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook, he combines deep practical troubleshooting insight with a community-first mindset. Based in Edinburgh, he brings a rare mix of academic teaching experience, enterprise architecture and grassroots open-source contribution.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing Science, BSc Computing Science at University of Aberdeen
German, French, Greek, English
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Github Skills (133)
libgit210
python10
django-framework10
data-management10
ruby10
publish10
subversion10
collaboration10
ruby-on-rails10
hacklang10
django10
git-lfs10
mailing10
mailing-list10
management10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vyruss/yaml_db
Oct 2016 - Oct 2020
Rails plugin for a database-independent dump format, data.yml
Contributions:6 PRs, 34 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 1 month
railsdata-formatindependentrubyrails-plugin
vyruss/rdflib-sqlalchemy
Nov 2016 - Oct 2020
RDFLib store using SQLAlchemy dbapi as back-end (non-autocommit hack)
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
pythonsqlalchemysqlautocommitdbapi
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