Stefan Fercot
Mons, Hainaut, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Fercot is a PostgreSQL-focused DBA and backend engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability for production databases. Based in Mons, Belgium, he is a pgBackRest contributor who has improved critical backup/restore features—such as WAL display accuracy, running-status visibility, and automated cipher/passphrase handling—helping make recovery operations more reliable and automated. He regularly shares his expertise through conferences, trainings, and consultancy, blending practical engineering with clear knowledge transfer. Known as a PostgreSQL evangelist, he pairs a systems-focused bachelor's education with a pragmatic drive to harden resilience and simplify failover processes for complex deployments.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Systems, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Systems at Institut Supérieur Industriel de Mons (ISIMs)
French, English, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
c1710
re-store10
backup10
recover10
postgresql10
c1110
testing9
command-line-interface8
cli8
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pgbackrest/pgbackrest
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:258 reviews, 29 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily contributed to the `pgbackrest/pgbackrest` repository by fixing bugs and enhancing the functionality of the `info` command. They addressed issues related to the display of WAL min/max values when specific stanzas were specified and added features like the display of backup/expire running status. Furthermore, they implemented the `expire-auto` option and worked on automatically determining the cipher passphrase for the `repo-get` command, indicating a focus on improving backup and restore operations. The user's work also includes improvements to the `info` command's output.
postgresqlparallelbackuprestoremulti-process
pgstef/pgbackrest
Feb 2019 - Dec 2025
Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore
Contributions:233 pushes, 75 branches in 6 years 11 months
postgresql
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