Feike Steenbergen
About Feike Steenbergen
Feike Steenbergen is a Database Engineer with extensive experience in PostgreSQL and Kubernetes. He has worked for notable companies such as Zalando SE, bol.com, Adyen, and currently TimescaleDB, where he contributes to high availability solutions and performance monitoring.
Work at TimescaleDB
Feike Steenbergen has been employed at TimescaleDB as a Database Engineer since 2019. He works remotely from New York and focuses on ensuring PostgreSQL availability for customers using Kubernetes. His responsibilities include designing and operating a Kubernetes Operator with Golang. He is also involved in creating Kubernetes Helm Charts for running highly available PostgreSQL databases with Patroni. Additionally, he adds Grafana dashboards based on PostgreSQL metrics to facilitate query performance inspection.
Previous Experience in Database Engineering
Before joining TimescaleDB, Feike Steenbergen worked at several notable companies. He was a Database Engineer at Zalando SE from 2014 to 2016 in the Berlin Area, Germany. Following that, he worked at bol.com for 9 months in 2016 to 2017 in the Utrecht Area, Netherlands. He then joined Adyen as a Database Engineer from 2017 to 2019 in the Amsterdam Area, Netherlands. His roles at these companies involved various aspects of database management and engineering.
Technical Skills and Contributions
Feike Steenbergen possesses a range of technical skills relevant to database engineering. He is part of the team that builds Patroni, a PostgreSQL High Availability solution. He ensures frequent backups using pgBackrest, optimizing Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). He has developed a Docker Image that includes PostgreSQL extensions and supports major PostgreSQL upgrades. Additionally, he builds Rust-based tooling for patching running Kubernetes Pods without restarts.
Education and Academic Background
Feike Steenbergen has been studying at the University of Groningen since 2009, pursuing a degree in Philosophy. His academic background provides a foundation for critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which are applicable in his technical roles.
Early Career at Hewlett-Packard
Feike Steenbergen began his career at Hewlett-Packard, where he worked as a Technical Coach and Support Engineer from 2002 to 2004 in Dublin, Ireland. This early experience contributed to his technical expertise and understanding of customer support in technology.