Debra is Director of Client Success & Compliance at Command Prompt Inc., supporting clients service and project needs for PostgreSQL consulting including database architecture, management, and optimization.

Debra has a Bachelor of Science in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology. She has 25 years of experience in data acquisition, analysis, and management as well as project management and RDBMS development in both private and government sectors in the water industry.

Debra is an open source and PostgreSQL advocate, having volunteered for various Postgres events and organizations including serving of the Board of the U.S. PostgreSQL Association. She is an organizer of the Austin Postgres Meetup Group, and Postgres Conference Series, and serves as lead of the Postgres Conference Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative Workgroup for Postgres Conference series.

Debra Cerda presents 7 Events:

• Data Rescue at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

• Collaboration and Community in PostgreSQL at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

• Launch at PGConf Local: Austin [PgConf.US]

• Open Source Communities as Biological Ecosystems at PGConf Local: Austin [PgConf.US]

• Being An Effective Tech Leader at Postgres Conference 2020

• Be the Change: Fostering Inclusion through Allyship at Postgres Conference 2020

• Babelfish for PostgreSQL at Silicon Valley 2022