Kanchan Mohitey

Senior Director, Managed Services, EDB

Kanchan Mohitey is a highly accomplished and results-driven expert with a distinguished career spanning over 15 years in the database arena. As Senior Director of Managed Services at EDB, she embodies a proven ability to steer technical and operational excellence in culturally diverse environments.

A highly skilled professional, Kanchan embodies the principles of engineering, project management, and quality assurance, and her unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction and delivering exceptional outcomes has earned her a reputation as a trusted and valued member of her organization. Her expertise has been honed through her extensive experience leading technical teams and her passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

Kanchan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune and an Executive Management certificate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. She also boasts multiple certifications in database management, project management, Cloud technology, Scrum and OKR coach, including a certification in PostgreSQL/EDB Postgres Advanced Server from EnterpriseDB.

She enjoys cross country roadtrips and exploring local places and cuisines. She has travelled ‘Incredible India’ 22 states and counting in the United States.

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Culture

International Women’s Day: Accelerating action on equity, allyship, and empowerment at EDB

At EDB, we believe that fostering an inclusive, supportive, and empowering culture is key to building a thriving workplace. As we celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we are proud to spotlight the Women and Allies Employee Resource Group (ERG)—an initiative dedicated to creating a space where the women of EDB can share, learn, and grow together. EDB People Associate...
Business Transformation

Enhancing Postgres Trust and Security with SOC 2

SOC 2 (System and Organizational Controls 2), developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), is a security framework for assessing and validating controls implemented by organizations. It provides an independent and trusted assessment of our information security controls, ensuring our pledge to protect customer data.
Postgres Tutorials

Monitoring Key Metrics to Keep Your Postgres Database Healthy

Data is a critical asset, and effectively utilizing it depends on your database. It is important to rigorously monitor your Postgres database to ensure continuous availability and optimal performance. Today's complex IT structures require proactive monitoring to prevent issues that could lead to system outages, data loss or other critical issues. Monitoring improves business effectiveness and...
Postgres Tutorials

How to Deploy Ansible Scripts for the EDB Postgres Platform

Then, Ansible scripts were used for configuration setup of the Postgres database and tools like EDB Failover Manager (EFM) for high availability, Postgres Enterprise Manager (PEM) for monitoring the Postgres cluster, and EDB Backup and Recovery Tool (BART) for maintaining the backups.

Remote DBA Service: Powering Your DBA Needs from Compute to Cloud

Postgres popularity and adoption is soaring and there is no denying the fact that Postgres has emerged as a leading choice of RDBMS in Open Source. Organizations across the world and of various sizes are acknowledging the benefits of Open Source for their application development and Postgres as a database of choice. The X-Factor of PostgreSQL It should come as no surprise that in DB-Engines...
Technical Blog

How to Provision and Deploy Highly Available Postgres with Terraform and Ansible Automation Scripts

The world loves Postgres. If you work with developers, data scientists or anyone wrangling data or you are one of them, you probably are already working on Postgres and know how to get started with the Postgres database. With the availability of the deployment scripts on EnterpriseDB GitHub, we have made the deployment of the Postgres platform easy. Improving the Postgres deployment experience by...
EDB Labs

PgAdmin Tests New QA Testing Framework

An established-yet-still-growing trend in software development is the use of a testing framework that allows the automated execution of unit tests to determine whether various code paths are working as expected under various circumstances. Each test case describes a test that must be run on an application to verify that the application runs as expected.