Nik Samokhvalov
Founder And CEO at PostgreSQL Global Development Group
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNik Samokhvalov is a founder and CEO with 11+ years of experience building production-grade Postgres tooling and semi-managed database services from startup to enterprise adoption. He leads PostgresAI, driving a roadmap toward self-driving Postgres and helping customers like GitLab, Chewy, Supabase and Midjourney with performance, CI/CD testing and thin-cloning workflows. A long-time PostgreSQL contributor and early implementer of XML types, he combines deep database internals knowledge with hands-on backend and DevOps work (notably on DBLab’s branching and snapshot tooling). He also has a track record of founding and exiting consumer platforms at scale, and brings a research-grade background from MIPT that informs his focus on database automation, AI integration, and observable query performance.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
post-graduate, Mathematics and Computer Science, post-graduate, Mathematics and Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (22)
database-administration10
devops10
scripting9
postgresql9
shell9
script9
sh9
docker8
dockers8
cicd7
database-schema7
activerecord6
full-text-search6
ruby-on-rails6
cloning6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
postgres-ai/database-lab-engine
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
DBLab enables 🖖 database branching and ⚡️ thin cloning for any Postgres database and empowers DB testing in CI/CD. This optimizes database-related costs while improving time-to-market and software quality. Follow to stay updated.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 266 commits, 44 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nik primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the project, demonstrating proficiency in PostgreSQL and related configurations. Their commits show modifications to the database connection setup, the creation of user-defined types, and adjustments to database schema ownership. They also contributed to DevOps tasks through improvements to the build process and configuration of the project's tooling. Furthermore, they showed experience with scripting for snapshot creation, including improvements for non-standard environments.
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NikolayS/postgres_dba
May 2017 - Sep 2022
The missing set of useful tools for Postgres DBAs and all engineers
Contributions:6 releases, 354 commits, 49 PRs in 5 years 4 months
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