Julien Tachoires
Postgres Core Developer at EDB
Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Tachoires is a Postgres Core Developer with 13 years of experience building and tuning PostgreSQL at scale, currently working at EDB from performance engineering into core development. He combines deep PostgreSQL internals expertise with hands-on DBA and tooling experience—previously leading engineering and CTO functions at Dalibo and contributing substantive backend work to pg_activity, a popular top-like PostgreSQL monitoring tool. Julien’s background spans systems architecture, database development in R&D, and open-source maintenance, with a practical focus on lock management, remote monitoring resilience, and performance troubleshooting. Based in the Greater Bordeaux area, he brings a rare mix of core database engineering, operational insight, and leadership across product and consulting roles.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Informatique, DUT, Informatique at IUT Bordeaux 1
English
Github Skills (6)
monitoring10
postgresql10
sql10
cli9
psycopg8
python7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dalibo/pg_activity
Oct 2012 - Apr 2020
pg_activity is a top like application for PostgreSQL server activity monitoring.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:6 releases, 179 commits, 70 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the core functionality and maintenance of the `pg_activity` tool. Their commits involved implementing features like lock management, adding degraded mode for remote monitoring, and fixing bugs. They also focused on versioning, updating the tool's version, and making changes to the setup and documentation files. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals and system-level monitoring.
postgresql-serversqlpostgrespostgresqlmonitoring
dalibo/docker
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Docker images of Dalibo's projects
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 11 months
docker-imagedockerdocker-images
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