Pallavi Sontakke
Senior Software Testing Engineer - Level 2 at Timescale
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPallavi Sontakke is a senior software testing engineer with over a decade of experience building and validating enterprise-grade middleware and PostgreSQL-based systems. She has led release management, CI/CD and QA for prominent Postgres extensions such as pglogical and BDR, and currently drives integration testing and containerized workflows for TimescaleDB on cloud platforms. Her background in core Java, concurrency and distributed systems (including work on Gemfire’s disk regions and delta propagation) gives her a rare blend of deep systems troubleshooting and automation skills. Pallavi pairs strong Unix debugging and scripting chops with hands-on pipeline engineering (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible), and has contributed directly to open-source database projects, helping shape replication, compression and testing workflows. Collected across finance, cloud monitoring and database product teams, her experience reflects both mentoring leadership and meticulous attention to high-risk, multi-threaded behaviors.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombaySchool name:
Github Skills (27)
postgresql10
admin10
testing10
databases10
time-series10
database-administration10
timescaledb10
sql10
database-replication10
database10
analytics9
data-engineer9
release-management9
replication9
automations8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
2ndQuadrant/pglogical
Oct 2015 - Nov 2021
Logical Replication extension for PostgreSQL 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9.6, 9.5, 9.4 (Postgres), providing much faster replication than Slony, Bucardo or Londiste, as well as cross-version upgrades.
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:52 commits, 3 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Pallavi primarily contributed to testing and enhancing the pglogical extension for PostgreSQL, which focuses on logical replication. Their work involved writing and modifying SQL scripts to test various replication scenarios, including huge transactions, row filtering, column filtering, and apply delays. They also addressed issues related to subscription setups, Postgres-XL compatibility, and time zone handling, demonstrating a deep understanding of database replication and related configurations.
subscriptionetlpostgrespostgresqlupgrades
timescale/timescaledb
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:74 reviews, 95 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pallavi's contributions primarily involve modifications and updates to the TimescaleDB codebase, focusing on database-related functionalities. This includes changes to SQL scripts, adjustments to compression policies, and updates to release procedures and testing configurations. The user demonstrates expertise in managing database features, version releases, and internal configurations within a PostgreSQL extension.
postgresql-extensionfinancial-analysiscomplex-queriestime-seriestsdb
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