Maxim Boguk
Senior Database Administrator
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxim Boguk is a Senior Database Administrator with nine years of focused experience in PostgreSQL and a decade-long trajectory of database roles spanning startups, enterprise consulting, and his own consultancy. As founder and Chief DBA at Data Egret and now a remote freelance Senior DBA at Appcast, he combines deep operational expertise with practical open-source contributions—most notably improving PostgreSQL index monitoring in the popular dataegret/pg-utils tools. Based in Kyiv, he’s known for reliable production tuning, index bloat diagnostics, and building version-aware reporting utilities that reduce firefighting time. His background includes international consulting (Fujitsu Australia) and hands-on ownership of company-wide database estates, reflecting a balance of strategic oversight and low-level problem solving. Colleagues describe him as driven yet balanced—someone who values sustainable operations as much as technical excellence.
9 years of coding experience
Postgraduate Diploma of Computer and Infromation Science Computer and Infromation Science, Postgraduate Diploma of Computer and Infromation Science Computer and Infromation Science at Auckland University of Technology
Russian, Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (11)
query-optimization10
database-administration10
postgresql10
sql10
optimisation10
optimization10
database-optimization10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dataegret/pg-utils
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Useful PostgreSQL utilities
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:5 commits, 32 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to the `pg-utils` repository, focusing on the `index_watch` functionality. They fixed a division-by-zero error in index bloat calculation and bumped the function's version. Furthermore, the user modified the minimum index size setting and created version-specific symlinks for query statistics reports. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving PostgreSQL index monitoring and reporting tools.
postgresqlsql-parserpostgres
dataegret/pg_index_watch
Oct 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 41 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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