PostgreSQL
28 achievements
- Engineered hourly electricity consumption aggregation pipeline in Python / SQL / Bash + Jq, achieving 180ms for 30‑day datasets across heterogeneous JSONL sources.
- Accelerated geographical data pipeline performance by 50x by improving SQL programming and data modeling across PostgreSQL, MS SQL, and Google Cloud BigQuery.
- Improved geographical map application performance by 10x through strategic database transition from MSSQL to PostgreSQL, optimizing processing and data security.
- Resolved 1,000 issues in geographical data and time‑series data, using GDAL, ArcGIS, PostGIS, Mapbox, QGIS, SQL (PL/pgSQL, Transact‑SQL), Bash, ensuring high‑quality big data processing.
- Designed, implemented, and administered 6 ETL/ELT pipelines, utilizing Google BigQuery, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Shell scripting, PL/pgSQL, and Transact‑SQL, integrating data for efficient Python API processing.
- Released 500 electricity and GIS data analysis reports, utilizing deep research and troubleshooting to ensure accurate geographic and time series big data insights.
- Architected, created, and managed 100 PostgreSQL, MS SQL, and Google BigQuery data warehouse databases with primarily GIS and time‑series data, optimizing performance and scalability.
- Designed, deployed, and maintained 10 PostgreSQL and MS SQL servers on Ubuntu Linux VPS, ensuring optimal server performance and reliability.
- Accelerated PostgreSQL performance by 10x via strategic indexing, partitioning, and query optimization, enhancing database efficiency for user, tenant, geospatial, and time‑series electrical data.
- Automated 100 critical data backups using Barman, Google Cloud, Bash, and Python, ensuring data integrity across databases.
- Directed full‑stack GIS map development, overseeing PostgreSQL, Mapbox, ReactJS, and NodeJS to deliver an integrated solution.
- Led the development, deployment, and support of over 30 GIS projects, demonstrating expertise in PostgreSQL, Bash, Python, JavaScript, GDAL, ArcGIS, PostGIS, and Mapbox technologies.
- Automated data processing tasks using Shell scripting, PL/pgSQL, Python, and Transact‑SQL, increasing productivity and efficiency.
- Engineered 600 PL/pgSQL‑based ETL/ELT pipelines to streamline complex data processing workflows across multiple PostgreSQL development and production environments.
- Architected a layered maritime platform separating a Next.js PWA frontend, a Go (Huma/Fiber) API, and a PostgreSQL function layer, keeping all business logic in the database.
- Designed a JSON passthrough architecture where PostgreSQL functions return complete JSON forwarded verbatim by the Go API, eliminating intermediate unmarshalling and decoupling the frontend from schema changes.
- Designed a PostgreSQL function‑first data layer — 1,275 stored functions across 34 schemas — so every read and write goes through a function the database can grant, rather than through a table.
- Adopted UUID v7 time‑ordered identifiers (PostgreSQL 18) as entity keys to reduce B‑tree index fragmentation and speed up queries.
- Implemented a catalogue‑driven deep‑merge for stored JSON preferences, preventing missing‑key crashes as the schema evolves.
- Modeled the maritime domain into 348 normalized tables across 34 PostgreSQL schemas — professionals, companies, ships, jobs, reviews and the rest — with SMALLINT lookups and UUID v7 keys.
- Configured database backup retention as infrastructure‑as‑code, then audited the recovery position and documented the restore procedure — naming the remaining gaps rather than leaving them to be found during an incident.
- Built a layered automated test suite — 981 Go tests, 543 frontend and browser specs, 494 SQL behavioural tests — with mutation testing, property‑based tests and an accessibility gate.
- Built the payments and entitlements layer — Stripe alongside Apple and Google in‑app purchase — gating the directory, search and export through an 11‑table access model checked on the server.
- Moved slow work off the request path onto a River job queue — 15 worker modules, 8 scheduled tasks and 20 pg_cron jobs — so a request returns while the work behind it carries on.
- Kept the schema honest across 1,022 migrations with a CI gate that builds the database both ways — a fresh install, and an install plus every migration — and fails when the two disagree.
- Built first‑party product analytics in PostgreSQL — 47 functions over partitioned event tables that prune themselves — pseudonymised behind a rotating salt and gated on the visitor's consent.
- Built the loyalty and reputation system — 67 functions over a 31‑table ledger, with leagues, badges and a redemption shop — taking a row lock on the balance to close the double‑spend window.
- Built the hiring marketplace and the seafarer career workspace — 151 stored functions across 48 tables — covering vacancies, applications, certificates, rank progression and verified sea time.
This work is part of what we offer as Database Design & Modeling, Backend & API Development, Data Pipeline Development (ETL/ELT), Database Administration (DBA), Data Governance & Quality, GIS & Geospatial Solutions, Database Performance Tuning and DevOps & CI/CD Automation.
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