About

Avinash Vallarapu is a PostgreSQL Database Architect, CEO and Chief of Products at HexaCluster, where he leads the development of PostgreSQL extensions and an end-to-end database migration tool called HexaRocket. Before HexaCluster, Avi founded MigOps and served as a PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Percona, and as a Database Architect at Dell. Avi is a frequent conference speaker, presenting at dozens of events around the world. He has spoken at four past Percona Live conferences, delivering 15+ hours of Percona Live sessions to date, and continues to share practical, field-tested lessons from real customer transformations.

A long-time PostgreSQL enthusiast and contributor to Ora2Pg and multiple other tools, Avi has played a key role in supporting contributions to 50+ PostgreSQL tools and extensions across the ecosystem. He is the author of multiple PostgreSQL books and is known for translating database internals into actionable guidance for DBAs and engineering teams. Across a 21-year career, Avi has worked hands-on with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Sybase, and DB2, leading initiatives in architecture, performance, operational reliability, and large-scale modernization.

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Avinash Vallarapu has presented the following presentations

PostgreSQL Features That Buy You a Fast Performance Win at PG Down Under 2026
Free, already-in-the-database features you never switched on, ranked by return on effort and measured every time
presented by Avinash Vallarapu
There is a category of PostgreSQL performance work that costs nothing but attention - features already in the database, already free, that most clusters never switch on or never tune. This is not about buying a bigger instance or re-architecting anything. It is about the parameters you usually miss to tune, index-only scan you are missing because your index does not cover the query, the extende...
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