About

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

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

I’m the creator of www.PostgreSQL.fr (early 2004) and a founding member of PostgreSQLFr (late 2004) and PostgreSQL Europe (2008) non-profits.

I’m also a founding member of Dalibo (July 2005), a PostgreSQL company in France. I left the company by the end of 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 and everlasting passion: work with PostgreSQL as a tech, but, this time, with new technologies like Kubernetes, which is PostgreSQL’s future without any doubt.

At work, I’m both the Country Manager for France, and a proud member of the Solutions Architects team, helping users and customers all around the World, from presales to success, including support escalations and everything they need to make them happy with PostgreSQL, whatever the technical context is, from bare metal to VMs to Kubernetes!

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, as are other Kubernetes operators for PostgreSQL, and I wanted to understand the sources, I’ve chosen Go on the end.

I’ve put on the main page all links to the social medias I post on and a link to send me an email anytime. I left X/Twitter on January 20th 2025.

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