Schedule - PGDay Napoli 2025
Nikhil Chawla
Company: Microsoft
Twitter: @chawlanikhil24
I'm a software engineer working at Microsoft, where my focus is on making PostgreSQL faster on Azure. I specialize in performance analysis using CPU, memory, network, and disk I/O metrics—running rigorous benchmarks to unlock new levels of efficiency and throughput in real-world workloads. Previously, I’ve worked extensively in the storage and systems domain, contributing to the performance tuning of large-scale distributed filesystems and developing components for web-scale storage platforms. My background spans both throughput optimization and hands-on development of core filesystem infrastructure—experience that now helps bridge the gap between PostgreSQL’s performance and the underlying storage stack.
