Patrick Thomschitz
Gründer In at LICENCIFY
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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RockstarPatrick Thomschitz is a Vienna-based database architect and founder with seven years of focused experience implementing secure PostgreSQL deployments and Transparent Data Encryption for enterprises. He combines hands-on SQL and backend engineering—demonstrated by contributions to the pg_timetable project—with strategic leadership roles from CTO/COO at CYBERTEC to founding LICENCIFY and running Thomschitz IT. Patrick has deep operational experience in database lifecycle management, migrations, performance tuning, and incident response from long-term roles at Bundesrechenzentrum and enterprise projects with HPE/Austrian Airlines. He routinely bridges consultancy and product work, translating security and compliance needs into practical database designs and automation. An active contributor to PostgreSQL tooling, he has implemented scheduling and job-management logic in open-source code, showing a knack for solving tricky database-scheduling and naming-edge cases. His profile blends entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic, security-first database engineering.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, German, English
Github Skills (7)
scheduling10
databases10
cron10
sqlfunction10
postgresql10
sql10
database10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cybertec-postgresql/pg_timetable
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
pg_timetable: Advanced scheduling for PostgreSQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 branches in 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `pg_timetable` project, focusing on SQL code. Their work involved implementing a `cron_element_to_array` function and a `job_add` function, enabling users to schedule tasks using a cron-style syntax. They also worked on generating unique chain names based on task configurations and fixed a bug related to range calculations. Their contributions heavily involve database design and implementation.
docker-imageschedulingsqlintervalchains
cybertec-postgresql/pgbackrest-tde
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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