Ibrar Ahmed

Principal Engineer, pgEdge

Ibrar Ahmed is a Software Architect in Percona LLC. Prior to coming to open source development, he had vast experience in software design and development. His main focus was on system-level embedded development. After joining EnterpriseDB in 2006, an Enterprise PostgreSQL company, he started his career in open source development specifically in PostgreSQL. He has contributed to the PostgreSQL community as well as other open source communities. His contribution ranges from the main performance feature enhancements to various PostgreSQL modules. In the database field, he has experience in other well-known databases MySQL, Oracle, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Hadoop. His experience is not limited to core databases, but with the tools related to databases like Hive, HBase, and Spark. He also worked on integrating these tools with PostgreSQL.

Ibrar gave more than fifteen PostgreSQL talks in the last year in various parts of the World (PostgreConf-EU, PostgreConf-ASIA, PostgreConf-NY, Percona Lives, FOSDEM, etc ). He also authored multiple books on PostgreSQL.

Securing Your Data Using PostgreSQL - January 12, 2022 Developer Meetup

When we talk about database security, it encompasses different modules of different distinct areas. It is a very vast topic because it requires securing your (1) Network, (2) Network Node, (3) Data, (4) Database, (5) Users and (6) Application.

pgpool - What, Why, and Where? - November 2022 Developer Meetup

Percona Community Live June 22 - Day 2

We invite you to come to the second day of the Percona Community Live stream! Learn about banking applications on TiDB, optimization techniques in MySQL, database reliability engineering, PostgreSQL and artificial intelligence, etc., on June 22nd. Join us on June 21st and June 23d for more fantastic content!

PostgreSQL and Artificial intelligence

Percona MeetUp for PostgreSQL Sept 2021

Full video recording of the live-streamed Community MeetUp for postgreSQL we held on September 15th, 2021. Matt Yonkovit, the HOSS, sat down with Jobin Augustine, PostgreSQL Escalation Specialist in Support at Percona, and Ibrar Ahmed, Senior Software Architect at Percona to talk about “PostgreSQL Data and Database Security” and “Driving factors for increased PostgreSQL adoptions”.

PostgreSQL Performance Extensions, Memory Settings, and Hardware - Percona Podcast 24

June 17, 2021 by Ibrar Ahmed, Matt Yonkovit

Matt and Ibrar talk about the impact of 3rd party extensions, memory settings, and hardware.