Michael Meskes holds a Ph.D. in database science and has worked in the open-source industry his whole career. After his time at RWTH Aachen university he started and ran credativ, a pure open-source company that is now part of NetApp, where Michael is still leading the same group of open-source enthusiasts. On top of that he is tasked with improving open-source work within NetApp.

Coming from the Unix landscape he started working on free and open-source software in 1993 and subsequently joined several free software projects like the Linux kernel (1994), Debian GNU/Linux (1995) and PostgreSQL (1996). He is still active as a Debian developer and a PostgreSQL committer as much as his real life commitments allow him to.

Michael has engaged in significant open-source evangelism and given related presentations at numerous events. He teaches open-source infrastructure and cloud components at a local university as an adjunct professor.

Michael Meskes presents 9 Events:

• Taking care of the elephant at PostgresConf US 2018

• PostgreSQL - Community meets Business at PGConf US 2015 [PgConf.US]

• PostgreSQL Power on Power at PGConf US 2016 [PgConf.US]

• POWER Platform - The New Home For PostgreSQL at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

• Taking care of the elephant at Silicon Valley

• Dialogue program at Beijing 2019

• Open Source - The Next Step at Beijing 2019

• Open Source in the Age of Cloud and Microservices at Silicon Valley 2023

• Open Source At A Crossroads at Postgres Conference 2024