PGConf India 2025

Jobin Augustine is a PostgreSQL expert and Open Source advocate and has more than 19 years of working experience as consultant, architect, administrator, writer, and trainer in PostgreSQL, Oracle and other database technologies. He has always been an active participant in the Open Source communities and his main focus area is database performance and optimization. He is a contributor to various Open Source Projects and is an active blogger and loves to code in C++ and Python. Jobin holds a Masters in Computer Applications and joined Percona in 2018 as a Senior Support Engineer. Prior to joining Percona, he worked at OpenSCG for 2 years as Architect and was part of the BigSQL core team, a complete PostgreSQL distribution offering. Previous to his work at OpenSCG, Jobin worked at Dell as Database Senior Advisor for 10 years and 5 years with TCS/CMC.

Sonia is data enthusiast who started working in PostgreSQL in the year 2012. Since she has performed multiple migrations from Oracle to PostgreSQL, she learnt Oracle while working with PostgreSQL. She is a SME for beginner-level course on Open Source Database-PostgreSQL in one of her previous company. She has conducted multiple trainings on PostgreSQL for freshers as well as experienced professionals. Also, she has been an active participant at pgConf and has given lightning talk. She has worked extensively in Taxation as well as manufacturing based projects for Indian as well as African sub- continent.