Postgres consultant @NetApp with several years of experience scaling, securing, and managing Postgres instances and managed Postgres adjacent services.
Presentations
Postgres as an AI Control Plane: Building RAG + MCP Workflows Inside the Database
As AI systems become more complex, developers are discovering that the database, not the model, is the real foundation of reliable AI. In this talk, I'll explore how Postgres can function as a full AI application server and control plane by combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
We’ll walk through a real implementation: ingest pipelines, vector search, metadata ranking, caching, provenance tracking, and LLM tool-calling, with Postgres acting as the system of record and the control plane. Then we’ll expose those capabilities over MCP so LLMs can safely query, transform, and orchestrate data.
The result is an end-to-end AI system where RAG, tools, transforms, logs, and automation are anchored in Postgres, providing a single, reliable foundation for AI applications
Pandas - Lazy at Mating, Lively at Mining!
This talk will discuss what data mining is, and how to approach a mining task with the best open source mining library - Pandas in Python.
Securing Your Data on PostgreSQL
This talk will cover the various features that Postgres provides for data security, from the very basic to the most advanced.
Postgres has a variety of features to secure your data in a multitude of ways, each suitable for a specific set of use cases. The goal of this talk is not just to lay out the features available to secure your data, but also to give an idea of when to leverage these features, and how best to implement it. This session will also cover some of the upcoming security features in Postgres 11, and a few gotchas with the existing features
Think Your Postgres Backups and Disaster Recovery Are Safe? Let's Talk.
Disaster recovery is perhaps the most ignored aspect of managing PostgreSQL in production systems. If not done right, it can make us repent for ages. Majority of production systems only have at most one defined backup and recovery strategy, not realizing the benefits of using a hybrid solution. Contrary to common perception of treating disaster management as a one model fits all philosophy, emphasis should be given on how various techniques are optimized for disaster scenarios.
