Boriss Mejías is a holistic system software engineer, PostgreSQL Solutions Architect at EDB, air guitar player and headbanger. He has more than a decade of experience in distributed self-managing systems, getting a PhD researching that topic. He has presented in many conferences in academia, open source, and Postgres. He is a co-author of the PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook. In his free time, Boriss enjoys contributing his expertise to open source communities, and he is an active member of the PostgreSQL User Group in Belgium and co-organizer of PgDay Lowlands.