Nicolas Thauvin
Summary
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SeniorNicolas Thauvin is a Senior PostgreSQL DBA and Unix systems engineer based in France with 15 years of experience managing databases and enterprise-class Unix environments. He specializes in PostgreSQL and a wide spectrum of Unix-like OSes—including GNU/Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and AIX—paired with SAN storage expertise for resilient, high-performance infrastructure. Currently at Cloudflare, he focuses on operating and tuning PostgreSQL at scale for demanding, latency-sensitive services. Nicolas brings deep systems-level troubleshooting skills and a pragmatic approach to reliability engineering, often bridging low-level OS behavior with database performance. His long-standing background in system engineering gives him an uncommon fluency in cross-platform interoperability and storage-stack optimization.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (48)
monitoring10
dashboard10
postgresql10
pitr10
recovery10
backup10
administration10
rdbms10
management10
shell10
database10
nagios9
failover9
selinux9
foreign-data-wrapper9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
orgrim/orgrim.github.io
Feb 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:36 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 3 months
dalibo/selinux-pgsql-pgdg
Sep 2014 - Jan 2021
SELinux policy module for PGDG rpms
Contributions:20 commits, 11 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 years 5 months
selinuxpostgresqlselinux-policysecuritysecurity-hardening
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