Phil Vacca
Practice Lead & Director, Global Postgres Practice at Datavail
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Vacca is a seasoned data and platform engineering leader with 11+ years designing and operating large-scale, compliant data systems and Postgres-centric architectures. Currently Practice Lead & Director of the Global Postgres Practice at Datavail, he blends hands-on database tuning, cloud-native platform engineering, and DevOps principles to drive reliable, observable production lifecycles across petabyte-scale workloads. His background spans startups to enterprise — leading global SRE teams, building serverless and containerized data lakes, and delivering GDPR/HIPAA/PCI-compliant solutions at scale. A frequent conference speaker and advocate for bringing PostgreSQL into modern pipelines, he’s equally comfortable authoring ETL tooling, building CI/CD for zero-downtime deployments, and mentoring teams in pragmatic data modeling. Based in Milwaukee, he pairs a practitioner’s attention to performance with a knack for translating complex infrastructure into repeatable, business-focused outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Psychology, Bachelor's Degree Psychology at Purdue University
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Github Skills (18)
ruby7
linux7
macos7
package-manager7
homebrew6
openshift5
partition5
docker5
kubernetes4
edb4
postgresql4
key-management4
oms4
management3
dedicated3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pvacca/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Nov 2024
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Contributions:6 PRs, 43 pushes, 10 branches in 7 years 1 month
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pvacca/EDBContainer
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:88 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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