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Franck Pachot

April 29, 2026 by Eren Turkoglu

Interviews Databases Postgres MongoDB

Can you introduce yourself?

My name is Franck Pachot, I have been a Developer Advocate at MongoDB for a little over a year. I will be at Microsoft starting in June 2026.

Did you follow a formal education?

I studied MIAGE at Paris-Sud, a master’s degree combining computer science, information systems, and business management.

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Ege Güneş

Team Lead, Kubernetes Operators @ Percona

June 2, 2026 by Eren Turkoglu

Ege talks about moving from law to software, discovering open source, building database operators at Percona, and why Linux and distributed systems matter for database engineers.

Interviews Percona Kubernetes Databases Open Source

Matt Cornillon

Data Cloud & AI Specialist @ Google

June 1, 2026 by Eren Turkoglu

Matt talks about his path through Oracle and PostgreSQL, his work with Postgres France, joining Google, and why database people need to engage with AI.

Interviews Google PostgreSQL Cloud Open Source

Cedric Villemain

President / CEO @Data bene

May 30, 2026 by Eren Turkoglu

Cedric talks about growing into PostgreSQL through Overblog, building Data Bene after 2ndQuadrant France, and why critical thinking matters even more in the AI era.

Interviews PostgreSQL Open Source Databases

Mikaël Francoeur

Software Engineer @ Turso

May 16, 2026 by Eren Turkoglu

Mikaël talks about his unusual path from musicology to databases, how open source helped him join Turso, and why reliability matters even more in the AI era.

Interviews Databases Open Source SQLite