2ndQuadrant- About
About 2ndQuadrant
2ndQuadrant serves clients in 15 countries, including US, Canada, Europe and Pacific regions from offices in UK and Italy. Formed in 2001 as a company of database experts, the company has been dedicated to PostgreSQL for more than 5 years.
2ndQuadrant is a Gold Sponsor of PostgreSQL, first listed in 2004.
2ndQuadrant sponsors speakers and PostgreSQL community events such as:
2ndQuadrant People
- Simon Riggs
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Simon leads the 2ndQuadrant team as Managing Consultant.
Simon has contributed major features in each of the last 5 versions of PostgreSQL.
His work includes recovery and replication, performance and monitoring as well as designs for many other features.
Simon has worked as a Database Architect for 20 years, with high-end solutions experience and certifications on Oracle, Teradata and DB2.
- Gabriele Bartolini
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A long time open-source programmer, Gabriele is an active member of the international PostgreSQL community. Among his contributions are:
- Convenor of the first Italian PostgreSQL Day (2007)
- Co-founder of the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group
- Convenor of the first European PostgreSQL Day (2008)
- Co-founder of PostgreSQL Europe
Gabriele has a degree in Statistics. His area of expertise is in data mining and data warehousing. Among his open-source projects: ht://Dig, ht://Check and ht://Miner. Gabriele has lived in Melbourne, Australia where he worked for Hitwise.
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- Gianni Ciolli
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Gianni works with Free and Open Source Software for more than 10 years; he has been co-founder and then president from 2001 to 2004 of the PLUG - Prato Linux User Group.
His main IT skills include databases, functional languages and symbolic computation. He contributes to the Italian PostgreSQL community by being an active member of ITPUG, writing to the 2ndQuadrant blog and translating the PostgreSQL Weekly News into Italian language.
Gianni holds a PhD in Mathematics with published research ranging between Algebraic Geometry, Theoretical Physics and Formal Proof Theory. His experience includes working at the University of Florence both as a researcher and as a teacher.
Currently he lives in London with his family; other interests include music, drama, poetry and sports.
- Hannu Krosing
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Hannu started programming a few years before PCs became available.
He has worked extensively on scaling the PostgreSQL database, designing a new partitioning language, pl/proxy, which, together with queueing system pgQ enables infinite database scalability.
Hannu balances his free time between his family and sports, mountaineering and reading. Hannu studied architecture and applied mathematics.
- Greg Smith
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Greg's first job as a database consultant and author of performance articles started fifteen years ago. Once hooked on using open-source projects for networking and development, he worked on improving the performance and management of Linux systems in many environments, eventually circling right back to database work again.
Greg holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science. Starting with PostgreSQL 8.3, he has been contributing features to that project that center on diagnosing and resolving performance issues. He's a regular PostgreSQL conference speaker, and his technical writing centers on database internals and operating system integration. Open-source projects he currently leads include pgtune and pgbench-tools.
During his free time in Baltimore, Greg is a compulsive music collector who refocuses his optimization skills toward assembling high-end audio systems.
