Schedule - PGConf.DE 2019
Michael Meskes
Michael Meskes holds a Ph.D. in database science and has worked in the open source industry his whole career. After his time at RWTH Aachen university he started and ran credativ, a pure open-source company, which became one of the global leaders in the space. After his exit from the CEO position Michael now helps start-ups in varies stages of their development.
Coming from the Unix landscape he started working on free and open-source software in 1993 and subsequently joined several free software projects like the Linux kernel (1994), Debian GNU/Linux (1995) and PostgreSQL (1996). He is still active as a developer as much as his real life commitments allow him to.
Michael has engaged in significant open source evangelism and given related presentations at numerous events. For a decade he also taught open source infrastructure and cloud components as an adjunct professor.