Vitaliy Kukharik
Principal DBA at TradingView
Phuket Province, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolVitaliy Kukharik is a Principal DBA and PostgreSQL specialist with over 15 years of experience focused on automation and high-availability database solutions. He founded Autobase, an open-source self-hosted DBaaS project that demonstrates his strength in Ansible-driven infrastructure, Patroni/HAProxy integration, and production-grade automation. Currently at TradingView and formerly contributing to Postgres.AI and DBLab, he blends hands-on DevOps engineering with practical DBA expertise to improve reliability and testing workflows. Based in Phuket, he actively seeks collaborators and sponsors to scale Autobase—reflecting a rare mix of operator instincts and open-source entrepreneurship. An unusual strength is his background in pedagogy, which he leverages to document, teach, and grow community-driven database tools.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Primary education and informatics, Computer science teacher, Primary education and informatics, Computer science teacher at SO College ZerenBachelor, Pedagogics and Psychology, Bachelor, Pedagogics and Psychology at Kokshe Academy
Russian, English
Github Skills (19)
postgresql10
high-availability10
testing10
databases10
automation10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
haproxy10
replication10
cloning10
database10
cicd9
etcd9
cil9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vitabaks/autobase
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Automated database platform for PostgreSQL® - Your self-hosted DBaaS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 releases, 307 reviews, 630 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vitaliy's commits primarily focus on automating and configuring the infrastructure for a PostgreSQL-based database-as-a-service platform. They implemented Ansible playbooks for automated database setup, including configuring Patroni for high availability and managing various aspects of the PostgreSQL environment. The user also worked on integrating HAProxy and other components, demonstrating a strong emphasis on automation, configuration management, and ensuring system reliability.
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postgres-ai/database-lab-engine
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
DBLab enables 🖖 database branching and ⚡️ thin cloning for any Postgres database and empowers DB testing in CI/CD. This optimizes database-related costs while improving time-to-market and software quality. Follow to stay updated.
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:1 release, 38 commits, 5 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Vitaliy primarily contributed to the testing and configuration aspects of the Database Lab Engine. Their work involved modifying test scripts, particularly those related to logical and physical cloning, and ensuring proper database shutdown procedures. Additionally, the user addressed issues by updating recovery configurations and addressing null assignment errors in replication lag calculations, improving the engine's reliability and stability. They also added support for PostgreSQL 15 within the testing framework.
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