Giulio Calacoci

• Recruited into the AI team on the strength of pg-airman-mcp, which started from proofs of concept with the VP of the unit. Part of the group that reviewed architecture decisions with VPs and SVPs.
• Co-designed the MCP connections of EDB AIDB. Part of the team behind AIDB 7.7, which added an MCP endpoint and in-database agents to Postgres for EDB's enterprise customers.
• Designed session tracin

• Led the technical direction of Barman, the open-source backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL (Python, 3,200+ GitHub stars). Team of up to six; design docs (RFCs) and PR reviews; about 23 releases (3.4 to 3.18), with the go/no-go call made together with the director.
• Added integration with PostgreSQL failover, tested on Kubernetes clusters that simulate failovers and switchovers. Added inc

• Created Foundation, EDB's GitHub-based framework to build, test, sign and publish every EDB product: 7 OS families (RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, SLES, Windows, macOS) and 4 CPU architectures (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, s390x), on GitHub Actions, AWS and Cloudsmith. Took it from zero to adoption by every product team; release preparation went from days to about a day.
• One of the owners of Found

• Designed, built and ran 2ndQuadrant's continuous delivery platform: a Jenkins framework that standardised builds for every product on every supported Linux distribution, with automated package signing and publishing.
• Served every development team, most of them new to CI/CD. Release time went from days to hours.
• Automated release management end to end. The platform became the base for Foundat

• Disaster recovery and high availability consultant: crisis support, consultancy, training, and high-performance database design.
• PostgreSQL support engineer (L1 and L2) on the on-call rotation, weekend shifts included. Ran customer calls during outages or joined them as the expert.
• Spoke at conferences and meetups on disaster recovery, backups and restore procedures. Member of ItPUG, the Ita

• Barman developer from 2013, for a time the project's only developer and its top contributor.
• Speaker at PyCon Italia and EuroPython on PostgreSQL, Python, disaster recovery, continuous integration and foreign data wrappers.

• Front-end and back-end development of web applications in Java, PHP and JavaScript (Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Symfony, Drupal, jQuery) on PostgreSQL.
• Projects for e-commerce, automotive and finance clients.

• Led a small team that built the front end of the company's core business application in PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

• Desk-side support for Italian and international users at Nuovo Pignone, Florence (a General Electric company).

Aug 2023