Kai Wagner
Head Of PostgreSQL Product & Engineering at Percona
Fulda, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolKai Wagner is a results-driven engineering leader with 14 years’ experience building and scaling database and storage products, currently heading PostgreSQL Product & Engineering at Percona. He progressed from hands-on consultancy and quality/community roles into product ownership and team leadership at SUSE before taking senior engineering management and now executive product leadership at Percona. Known for a pragmatic "done is better than perfect" approach, Kai pairs strong technical curiosity—he enjoys breaking things to find bugs—with a track record of shipping reliable, production-grade database solutions. Based in Fulda, Germany, he combines product sensibility with deep operational experience in PostgreSQL, MongoDB and enterprise storage. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex technical constraints into practical, testable roadmaps that prioritize customer value.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Fulda University of Applied Sciences
German, English
Github Skills (109)
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rdma10
fuse10
blob-storage10
backblaze10
backup10
gossip10
glusterfs10
pbm10
openebs10
statistics10
persistent-storage10
high-performance10
tarball10
database10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
capri1989/reveal.js
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
The HTML Presentation Framework
Contributions:4 PRs, 67 pushes, 22 branches in 4 years 8 months
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capri1989/capri1989.github.io
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:50 pushes, 2 branches, 9 issues in 4 years 8 months
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