Petr Jelinek is VP and Chief Architect at EDB, where he leads the development of Postgres Distributed (PGD), EDB’s active-active high availability solution for PostgreSQL. In addition to his work on distributed systems, he contributes to the integration of PostgreSQL with analytics engines and storage platforms, expanding its capabilities in modern data environments.

Petr has over 15 years of experience building PostgreSQL replication, data movement, and high availability across companies such as EDB, 2ndQuadrant, Microsoft, and Skype.

A major contributor to PostgreSQL, Petr has been actively involved in the community for two decades, with key features to his credit including logical replication, DO, and TABLESAMPLE. His earlier contributions include work on pglogical and PgBouncer, and his focus remains on distributed systems, replication, and core database architecture.