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Speakers

Chelsea Dole

Employers on the program

  1. 2024–2025Citadel3 talks
  2. 2023Brex4 talks
Events7
Conferences5
Talks7
Years active2023–2025
Miles between events23,1127 in-person events · 5 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)
  • PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)
  • Nordic PGDay
  • PGDay Chicago
  • pgDay Paris

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Apr 25, 2025PGDay Chicago 2025PGDay ChicagospeakerTable Bloat: Managing Your Tuple Graveyard
as Citadel

When making the leap from "running Postgres" to "running Postgres at scale", managing table bloat is a hurdle which many engineers trip over.

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Oct 22, 2024PGConf.EU 2024 (14th PostgreSQL Conference Europe)PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)speakerPostgres Platform "Best Practices" for the Modern DBA
as Citadel
During the past few decades, the role of the Postgres Database Administrator (DBA) has evolved significantly, giving rise to the "Database Platform Engineer."…Show less

During the past few decades, the role of the Postgres Database Administrator (DBA) has evolved significantly, giving rise to the "Database Platform Engineer." This role emphasizes building developer-owned database tooling, and managing/optimizing databases as a cohesive fleet. Across my last several jobs, I have contributed to & led several database platform teams, and managed Postgres for a...

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Sep 30, 2024PGConf NYC 2024PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)speakerPostgres Platform "Best Practices" for the Modern DBA
as Citadel
In the past few decades, the role of the Postgres Database Administrator (DBA) has evolved significantly, giving rise to the "Database Platform Engineer." This…Show less

In the past few decades, the role of the Postgres Database Administrator (DBA) has evolved significantly, giving rise to the "Database Platform Engineer." This role emphasizes building developer-owned database tooling, and managing/optimizing databases as a cohesive fleet.

Slides
Dec 12, 2023PGConf.EU 2023 (13th PostgreSQL Conference Europe)PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)speakerIt's Not You, It's Me: Breaking Up with Massive Tables via Partitioning
as Brex
Similar to memory configurations and Active-Active, when you find yourself Googling "How to partition a Postgres table", you're usually in a tight spot.…Show less

Similar to memory configurations and Active-Active, when you find yourself Googling "How to partition a Postgres table", you're usually in a tight spot. However, although real-life use cases for partitioning typically start with a large, production table where uptime is critical, most documentation and blogs only cover setting up new partitioned tables -- ignoring the delicate work necessary...

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Oct 3, 2023PGConf NYC 2023PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)speakerIt's Not You, It's Me: Breaking Up with Massive Tables via Partitioning
as Brex

Similar to memory configurations and Active-Active, when you find yourself Googling "How to partition a Postgres table", you're usually in a tight spot.

Slides
Mar 22, 2023pgDay Paris 2023pgDay ParisspeakerManaging Your Tuple Graveyard
as Brex

When making the leap from "running Postgres" to "running Postgres at scale", managing table bloat is a hurdle which many engineers trip over.

Mar 21, 2023Nordic PGDay 2023Nordic PGDayspeakerManaging Your Tuple Graveyard
as Brex

When making the leap from "running Postgres" to "running Postgres at scale", managing table bloat is a hurdle which many engineers trip over.

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Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Ryan Booz5—2025
Boriss Mejias4—2024
Christophe Pettus4—2024
Claire Giordano4—2024
Jonathan S. Katz4—2024
Lætitia AVROT4—2024
Magnus Hagander4—2024
Pavlo Golub4—2024
Henrietta Dombrovskaya3—2025
Andres Freund3—2024
Charles Feddersen3—2024
Derk van Veen3—2024
Jimmy Angelakos3—2024
Peter Eisentraut3—2024
Robert Haas3—2024

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.