Ian Van Der Linde
Senior PostgreSQL Engineer at Adyen
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Van Der Linde is a Senior PostgreSQL Engineer with 11 years’ experience building and operating mission-critical database systems, currently focused on uptime, query performance and automation in enterprise environments. He blends academic rigor—an M.Sc. and research in sentiment analysis and scientometrics—with hands-on production work integrating massive datasets like Wikidata and PATSTAT into performant PostgreSQL architectures. Ian has led teams through agile transitions, designed custom dashboarding and monitoring stacks (Telegraf, Prometheus, Grafana), and automated infrastructure with Puppet and Ansible to guarantee continuous operation. He has a track record of moving research-grade systems into resilient enterprise deployments, and an entrepreneur’s perspective from founding Descry Technologies. An atypical strength is his combination of deep data-science publication experience with practical systems engineering, enabling empirically driven optimization of large, real-world data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science and Informatics, M.Sc., Computer Science and Informatics at University of the Free State
English, Afrikaans, French, Dutch
Github Skills (54)
postgresql-database9
stable9
barman9
administration9
versioning8
open-access8
elasticsearch8
pgadmin8
pgbouncer8
sql8
audio-device8
datasets8
pgpool8
edb8
journal8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Ianvdl/edb-ansible
Feb 2024 - Jul 2025
Ansible code for deploying PostgreSQL and EDB Advanced Server database clusters and related software. Pull requests welcome.
Contributions:20 PRs, 55 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 5 months
ansiblebarmanpgbouncerpgpoolpgpool-ii
Ianvdl/Ianvdl
Aug 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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