Team

Dalibo is the leading PostgreSQL company in France, with more than 30 people dedicated to PostgreSQL. It’s also the only French company among the Major Sponsors of the PostgreSQL project.

Carole Arnaud

Managing Codirector, Research and Development Manager

Carole spent many years as a scientist and a teacher. She is now managing the PostgreSQL Development team and the R&D activities of the company. Moreover she is not only involved in the pgDay Paris event but also in the PostgreSQL community by having taken part in their Code of Conduct Committee. Since 2022, she has been codirector of our cooperative business, elected by the co-owners along with Virginie Jourdan.

Étienne Bersac

Co-Owner, Developer

Étienne is a very multitasking developer. His skills go from web development to linux kernel or even deployment tools. Passionate with agility and software architecture, Étienne makes sure of the code’s quality, and also contributes to ldap2pg, Dramatiq-pg and temBoard

David Bidoc

David Bidoc

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

David is passionate with PostgreSQL. He uses his experience to help with the support services and our Socle Dalibo PostgreSQL.

Sharon Bonan

Sharon Bonan

Co-Owner, Staff Administration Manager

Sharon manages our human resources. Dealing with the contracts, the staff’s training, the hard time any worker can go through… She makes sure that we work in a safe and clear environment.

Franck Boudehen

Franck Boudehen

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

After 12 years as an independent DBA, Franck joined Dalibo in order to focus solely on PostgreSQL. Little by little, he specialized in high availability with PostgreSQL before creating our HAPAT training.

Arnaud Bruniquel

Arnaud Bruniquel

PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Initially trained as a System Administrator, Arnaud became an Oracle DBA before joining Dalibo… and falling for PostgreSQL’s qualities! From 2023, he takes care of Socle Dalibo Postgres integration, support and training.

Stéphane Carton

Stéphane Carton

Pre-Sales Consultant

After 20 years of experience as a DBA Consultant (Oracle & PostgreSQL) in various digital service companies and final customers, Stéphane came to strengthen our sales team as a Pre-Sales Consultant. We can define him as a geek who benefits from a great field experience and a taste for customer relations. He will offer you the best support for your DBMS projects.

Pierrick Chovelon

Pierrick Chovelon

PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

A real Jack-of-all-trade, Pierrick ended up using PostgreSQL in various production environments (system, database, cloud, kubernetes…). Dalibo’s expertise and cooperative model made him want to join our DBA team in 2023, where he takes part in support, audit and training.

Damien Clochard

Co-founder, Product Owner

Damien is an active member of the French PostgreSQL community. He is part of the admin team of the postgresql.fr website and he is the president of the French-speaking PostgreSQL association. He gives regular talks at community events, i.e. about PostgreSQL Anonymizer that he created. Since 2022, he has been the Product Owner of temBoard et pglift.

Christophe Courtois

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Christophe has a solid PostgreSQL knowledge combined with advanced understanding ETLs and BI systems (such as SAP BusinessObjects). Moreover he contibutes to the PostgreSQL community by translating parts of the official documentation. At last he is one of the developers of check_pgactivity.

Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL Expert

Jehan-Guillaume has been passionate about PostgreSQL for years. He joined Dalibo in 2009, where he used to be consultant/trainer and developed skills in high availability. Among other projects, he is currently in charge of our Level 4 Support service and issues concerning the PostgreSQL core. He is also one of our experts in high availability.

Arnaud de Vathaire

Arnaud de Vathaire

PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Arnaud first worked with databases in the aerospace industry. As a DBA before got trained by Dalibo before he joined us. Together with his fellows, he participates in technical support, audits and training.

Jennifer Delaballe

Jennifer Delaballe

Co-Owner, Office Manager

Jennifer manages the administration, the purchases and the accounting of our company. Our business is also successful and sustainable thanks to the quality of her work.

Pierre Giraud

Developer

Pierre is a Python and Javascript developer who has always worked in the opensource software industry. What he prefers is working on user interfaces and user experience. He puts his skills to good use for improving the UI of graphic tools such as PoWA or temBoard. He is also the creator of PEV2.

Marion Giusti

Developer

Holding a PhD in Marine Geosciences, Marion discovered programming through geophysical data processing. Then she learnt Python, which is widely used in the scientific community. She is now part of our developers’team, where she works on web-based interfaces and pglift.

Nicolas Gollet

Nicolas Gollet

Co-Owner, Technical Manager

As a skilled network, system and database administrator, Nicolas knows well the complex infrastructures. He was appointed Technical Manager in 2022.

Pierre-Louis Gonon

Developer

After an experience as a PHP and MySQL developer, Pierre-Louis specialized in Python and PostgreSQL while working on a software solution for medical clinic files. He came to Dalibo for our free software values. Today he contributes to temBoard and pglift.

Diana Houdart

Diana Houdart

Co-Owner, Sales Manager

Diana holds an essential role in the business success of Dalibo thanks to her passion for the customer relationship, the collaboration with her coworkers and trade strategy.

Florent Jardin

Co-Owner, Migration Consultant, Project Manager, Trainer

After having worked on the main DBMS of the market, Florent fell for Free Software and was hired as a DBA by Dalibo in 2019. Now he helps our clients with their transition projects to PostgreSQL. As a natural contributor, he promotes PostgreSQL in his region (Hauts-de-France).

Virginie Jourdan

Managing Codirector and Human Resources Director

Virginie oversees our human resources. She is convinced that the human being must be at the center of our business and that principle defines the way she carries out her tasks. At the moment, she is one of the codirectors of Dalibo, elected by the other co-owners.

Nicolas Klein

Nicolas Klein

Project Manager

Nicolas manages our Socle clients projects. After having developed GIS skills, he has worked for 15 years in different worlds such as open-source and proprietary software, entrepreneurship and social economy, while developing an interest in cloud. He also teaches in higher education institutions.

Luc Lamarle

Luc Lamarle

PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Luc used to be a DBA at the Gendarmerie nationale, where he got to know well the sensitive production environments and the main DBMS of the market. Today he takes part in our technical support and training service.

Denis Laxalde

Co-Owner, Developer

After years spent in the scientific research, Denis became a developer. Then he ended up in our team, attracted by the PostgreSQL community. Now he is in charge of the development and maintenance of our Socle PostgreSQL. He also contributes to the Psycopg et pg_activity projects.

Guillaume Lelarge

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL Expert, Trainer

Although Guillaume had been the treasurer of PostgreSQL Europe for 10 years, he remains the main translator of the French PostgreSQL documentation. He’s involved in multiple open source projects: pgAdmin, check_postgres, pgpool, pgsnap, pgstats, etc. He has written many articles for Linux Mag and a book called PostgreSQL : Architecture et notions avancées.

Alain Lesage

Alain Lesage

PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

After his engineering studies, Alain started his career in the industrial sector where he implemented PostgreSQL among other free technologies. He got to know Dalibo thanks to its open access handbooks. Once he learnt how our cooperative business works, he decided to join our DBA team in 2022. What he enjoys the most is to help our customers save time by optimising the requests.

Benoit Lobréau

PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Former Design DBA, Benoit joined our DBA team in 2019. He is now the main developer of pg_activity.

Carnetta Mapp

Carnetta Mapp

Executive Assistant

After a rich experience in tourism, Carnetta switched towards administration. As she was attracted by Dalibo’s cooperative model, she joined us in 2023. Her transversal support is essential to our HR, finance and communication.

Adélaïde Mélérowicz

Adélaïde Mélérowicz

Sales Administration Officer

Within our Sales team, Adélaïde takes care of our Sales Admnistration.

Pauline Montpied

Pauline Montpied

Account Manager

Prospecting has no secret for Pauline, who used to work in various sectors such as engineering and supporting companies! Today she is happy to take care of our customer relations. At Dalibo she finds a vision she agrees with, based on client satisfaction and staff wellness.

Bertrand Painchaud

Bertrand Painchaud

Service Delivery Manager

Bertrand managed different support teams before joining Dalibo, attracted by its open source and cooperative philosophy. Today he coordinates our consultant team and makes sure we satisfy our customers needs.

Jill Paufichet

Jill Paufichet

Co-Owner, Salesperson for Trainings and Support Offers

Jill manages the training program and sells Dalibo’s PostgreSQL support.

Alexandre Pereira

Alexandre Pereira

PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Alexandre is a do-it-yourselfer and free software lover who makes us also benefit from his experience in support and system administration.

Robin Portigliatti

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Robin is one of our DBA. He contributes also to the community by taking part in the French translating of the official PostgreSQL documentation.

Mathieu Ribes

Mathieu Ribes

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Mathieu is a database lover who got training in Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL. He joined Dalibo in order to commit himself to PostgreSQL and free software.

Laura Ricci

Co-Owner, Communication Officer

Laura works for the communication of Dalibo by using free software as much as possible. Moreover she wishes to put forward the quality of her colleagues’ work and the humanist values of the cooperative and free software movements.

Be-Hai Tran

Be-Hai Tran

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Thanks to his experience as a system administrator, Be-Hai helps with the support service and the deployment of platform projects.

Christophe Truffier

Christophe Truffier

Co-Owner, Support and Consulting Manager

Christophe coordinates Dalibo’s projects and he is in charge of the technical support service - level 2. He works around the Linux and Unix universe since 1999 and was a system administrator for a long time, he’s very versatile.

Julian Vanden Broeck

Julian Vanden Broeck

Co-Owner, System Administrator

Julian is the System Administrator in charge of Dalibo’s infrastructure. Free software lover, he is also interested by IT security. Before joining us, he used to work for some Belgian universities as a System Administrator and technical referent for security issues.

Thibaud Walkowiak

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Thibaud has a good knowledge of production environments and their related constraints. He met Dalibo for the first time in 2008 before the first data migrations to PostgreSQL within the French National Family Agency (CNAF). He now helps develop E-Maj.

Frédéric Yhuel

Frédéric Yhuel

Co-Owner, PostgreSQL DBA, Trainer

Frédéric joined Dalibo in 2020 in order to strengthen our DBA team. He has used PostgreSQL for more than 10 years but has also an experience as a C Developer. He does not hesitate to have a look on the PostgreSQL source code to clarify some technical issues.

Lorraine Young

Lorraine Young

Management Assistant

With versatility and efficiency, Lorraine takes part in the administrative management team of the company.

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