About

Hi there! I’m Jean-Paul Argudo. I have some background in PostgreSQL for some time now. I’m also know as my trigram, I’m often called “jpa”.

I’m a PostgreSQL fan and advocate, since the early 2000’s.

I’m a founding member of PostgreSQLFr (2004) and PostgreSQL Europe (2008) non-profits.

I’m also a founding member of Dalibo (2005), a PostgreSQL company in France. I left Dalibo late 2021, after 16 years of a vibrant, incredible journey with great people. I just wanted to do “something else”.

I founded Crunchy Data France in 2022, and got back to my first love, first passion: work in PostgreSQL as a tech, but, this time, with new technologies like Kubernetes, which is PostgreSQL’s future without any doubt.

At Crunchy Data, I’m both the Country Manager of Crunchy Data France, and a prod member of the Solutions Architects team, helping users and customers all around the world, from presales to success, including support escalations and everything that is needed to make them happy with PostgreSQL, whatever the technical context (bare metal, VMs, Kubernetes, Cloud…).

Finaly, I’m the developper of pgSimload, a versatile CLI tool to create activity on PostgreSQL server(s) and/or test High-Availability in PostgreSQL, in all possible technical contexts. I wrote it in Golang, as I wanted to learn a new language. I must say I hesitated a lot with Rust. But since Crunchy Data’s operator is coded in Go, and I wanted to understand the sources, I’ve chosen Go on the end.

On the main page you have all links to the social medias I post on and a link to send me an email anytime!

All posts on this blog belongs to me, it’s my own opinion, not reflecting my employer’s.