Michael Paquier - PostgreSQL committer

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Michael Paquier - Resume

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.

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