Quinn Weaver
Senior Database Administrator
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQuinn Weaver is a Senior Database Administrator with 17 years of experience specializing in PostgreSQL performance, high availability, backup/replication, and low-downtime migrations. Based in Oakland, he combines hands-on tuning and capacity planning with DevOps expertise across EC2, RDS, connection pooling, and VM/hardware sizing to help clients scale and protect critical data. A founder of a boutique PostgreSQL consultancy and long-time independent consultant, he’s handled corruption recovery, complex upgrades, and cross-database migrations many times over. Quinn’s background in software engineering and cognitive science gives him a practical, systems-minded approach to diagnosing elusive autovacuum/XID and connection issues that often stump others.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Majors in cognitive science and classical studies; minors in computer science and Spanish, Bachelor's degree, Majors in cognitive science and classical studies; minors in computer science and Spanish at Indiana University Bloomington
Spanish
Github Skills (26)
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postgresql8
perl7
syntax-highlighting7
python7
backup6
administration6
database6
databases6
cli5
barman5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
qdw/qdw-dotfiles
May 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:164 pushes in 3 years 11 months
qdw/vegan-recipes
Jul 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:6 pushes in 9 years 5 months
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