Michael Paquier - PostgreSQL committer

Personal information

• Location: Tokyo, Japan
• Nationality: French
• Contact: michael at paquier dot xyz

Work area

• Open source development
• Relational Database Developer - PostgreSQL
• Goal: Develop state-of-the-art Database and Open Source software technologies, protect 75~80 characters per line of code.

Professional experience

September 2022-Now

• Amazon Web Services (AWS), Senior Database Engineer, Tokyo, Japan
• Working on PostgreSQL things, for Amazon, as a whole.

January 2009-Now

• PostgreSQL Global Development Group, World, Planet Earth
• PostgreSQL hacker, blogger and module developer.
• Committer of upstream since May 2018.

January 2013-August 2022

• VMware, Staff 2, Tokyo, Japan
• Working on PostgreSQL integration, packaging and virtualization
• Staff: September 2019 - April 2021
• Senior Member of Technical Staff: May 2015 - September 2019
• Member of Technical Staff: January 2013 - May 2015

January 2009-December 2012

• NTT Data Intellilink, Tokyo, Japan
• Solutions teams, Open Source solution division
• Packaging of solutions based on Open Source Softwares (mainly DB)
• Community-based work and support of PostgreSQL and Postgres-XC.

Mars 2008-Aout 2008

• Astek Sud-est, Sophia-Antipolis, France
• Consultant for Amadeus, specialized in flight ticket booking systems.
• Development of C++/C solutions, support to other teams and customer request actions.

January 2007-August 2007

• Hitachi Ltd, Hitachi City, Japan
• Program Vulcanus in Japan. 40 participants for 1,000 applicants
• Member of a team in charge of the development of electronic packages with new types of heat materials.
• Creation of cooling designs for electronic package cooled by low-speed airflow (patented). Work in Japanese.

June 2006-August 2006

• CEMAGREF, Bordeaux, France
• Statistical forecast of pipe failures in a water network.
• Comparison of the efficiency of 2 statistical processes: Yule and Weibull.
• Creation of a comparison method to evaluate the age of water network of Saint-Etienne.

Education

September 2007-February 2008

• ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France
• 3rd year engineer student.
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD): Multiphase flows, turbulence models, combustion.
• Development of efficient software solutions for fluid simulation.
• Master’s degree
• Among 10% best students.

September 2006-December 2006

• Kai-Nihongo School, Tokyo, Japan
• Program Vulcanus in Japan
• 4-month Japanese language and cultural course.

September 2005-May 2006

• ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France
• 2nd year engineer student.
• Specialization in numerical projects and simulations.
• Simulations about physical phenomenons. OOP programming.
• 3rd over 75 students.

September 2004-May 2005

• ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France
• National polytechnic Institute of engineering in Electro-technology, Electronics, Computer Science, Hydraulics and Telecommunications
• 1st year engineer student.
• Statistics, mechanical engineering, material science.
• Basic programming: C, C++, Fortran introduction.
• 5th over 75 students.

September 2002-July 2004

• Lycee Berthollet, Annecy, France
• Preparatory classes for entrance exams into national engineering schools (Grandes ecoles).
• Deep Mathematics and physics theorical studies: MPSI and MP* (Math Otaku times!).

Languages

• French: Native speaker
• English: Business level, TOEIC 860 in April 2006, TOEFL 101 in December 2007.
• Japanese: Business level, JLPT 2 passed in December 2008
• German: Basic level
• Spanish: Basic level

IT skills

Operating systems

• Linux: Far more dev, far more stuff.
• macos: Dev, and stuff.
• Windows: Less dev, and less stuff.
• Software development: git, emacs, mutt, i3.

Programming

• Programming Languages: C (main), C++, Java, Perl, Python, more (?).
• Environment scripting: bash.
• Web applications: HTML, php, some javascript.
• Database stuff: PostgreSQL, SQL and relational database engines.

Extra-curricular activities

Club management

• President of the ENSEEIHT drama club in 2005-2006
• President of the ENSEEIHT bibliotheque club in 2005-2006

Sports and activities

• Swimming, joggling, music.
• Japanese drum: performance in public with Japanese-only team.

Awards

• June 1999 : 3rd of the Maths Olympics of Rhone-Alpes area, France (approximately 1,000 participants).
• September 2006 : Award from Vulcanus in Japan program, chosen with 40 other participants among 1,000 applications. Sponsorised by the EU-Japan Center for Industrial Cooperation based in Brussels.