Michaël Paquier
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Japan
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Top SchoolMichaël Paquier is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years focused on PostgreSQL internals, OSS stewardship, and database engineering, currently continuing PostgreSQL work at AWS. A long-standing PostgreSQL committer and blogger, he has driven core feature enhancements, testing improvements and portability fixes across the upstream repository and extensions like pg_hint_plan. His background spans enterprise roles at VMware and NTT Data where he led scalability, HA and security efforts, and he brings practical experience in maintaining package ecosystems through contributions to Homebrew legacy formulas. Comfortable communicating in Japanese, English and French, he combines deep C-level database engineering with pragmatic tooling and regression-test improvements. An unexpected but telling detail: his early training in computational fluid dynamics informs a methodical, data-driven approach to performance tuning and systems optimization.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computational fluid dynamics, Master, Computational fluid dynamics at ENSEEIHT
Japanese, English, French, Spanish, German
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ossc-db/pg_hint_plan
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Extension adding support for optimizer hints in PostgreSQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 15 reviews, 113 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michaël primarily contributes to the `pg_hint_plan` PostgreSQL extension, focusing on code style improvements and bug fixes. They address whitespace inconsistencies, fix warnings, and improve the portability of the regression tests. The user also added support for hints with array parameters in PREPARE statements and handled issues with PL/pgsql functions. Additionally, they have been involved in cleaning up dead code and adding upgrade paths for the extension.
postgresql
postgres/postgres
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer/Administrator
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer/AdministratorContributions:2616 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michaël's contributions center on enhancing the PostgreSQL database system, specifically focusing on adding features and resolving issues related to table and index management. Their work involved modifying existing code, enhancing database performance through index optimizations, and improving the handling of core data types and operations within the system. The contributions also included improvements in testing and error handling for a more reliable and efficient database.
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