Jociele Padilha is a seasoned Database Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of deep expertise across SQL Server and Oracle and recent hands-on expansion into PostgreSQL, Python, and Go. Currently at Zalando, she contributes to cloud-native Postgres tooling—helping enhance a widely used Kubernetes Postgres operator with HA and resource limit features—bridging DB internals and DevOps. Her background spans enterprise-grade migrations, performance tuning, high-availability architectures (AlwaysOn, GoldenGate, RAC/Dataguard) and disaster recovery policy design. Comfortable across Windows and Linux environments, she pairs operational rigor with scripting and automation to streamline deployments and troubleshooting. Known for coaching teams and translating complex database problems into practical, production-ready solutions, she brings both frontline support experience from Microsoft and leadership in database operations.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Systems, Bachelor, Information Systems at UNIASSELVI
Specialist, Database Administration, Specialist, Database Administration at FESP
Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 27 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jociele contributed to the development and maintenance of the PostgreSQL operator for Kubernetes. Their work included adding new parameters for the Patroni API, which is a key component for high availability and cluster management. They also fixed extraction of EBS volume IDs and implemented tests for team member lookup API. Furthermore, they implemented maximum CPU and memory request limits for the postgres containers.
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