Ibrar Ahmed is a Senior Software Architect in Percona LLC. Prior to coming to open source development, he had vast experience in software design and development. The main focus was on the system level embedded development. After joining EnterpriseDB, an Enterprise PostgreSQL company in 2006 he started his career in open source development specifically in PostgreSQL. He has contributed to the PostgreSQL community as well as other open source communities. His contribution is from the main performance feature enhancements to various PostgreSQL modules. In the database field, he has experience in other well-known databases MySQL, Oracle, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Hadoop. His experience is not limited to core databases, but with the tools related to databases like Hive, HBase and Spark. He also worked on integrating these tools with PostgreSQL.

He gave more than fifteen PostgreSQL talks in the last one year in various parts of the World (PostgreConf-EU, PostgreConf-ASIA, PostgreConf-NY, Percona Lives, etc ). He also authored multiple books on PostgreSQL.

Mike Josephson (MJ) is passionate about technology and the transformative effect it can have on his customers. He works tirelessly to remove customer roadblocks and ensure the success of those that he works with. For afterall it is in the success of ones customers that we are likewise successful. When he is not working you can find him spending time with his family or hiking the mountains near his house.

Entrepreneur & developer with two+ decades of Postgres experience. Co-Founder and CTO of pgEdge; AWS product manager for Postgres; Founder of OpenSCG and Co-Founder of EnterpriseDB.