Rivkin Mark Nakhimovich

Rivkin Mark Nakhimovich

Biography

Mark Rivkin was born in Moscow. Database expert, has many publications.

He studied at school number 371.

He received his higher education in 1975 at MATI (Moscow Aviation Technological Institute named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky).

2014

As of August 28, 2014, Mark Rivkin works as the head of database and cloud computing at Oracle CIS technology consulting. Prior to that, he worked for Oracle for more than 18 years, worked at IBM, LVS, the Institute of Problems of the Office of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

2022: Appointment as Head of Technical Consulting at Postgres Professional

On September 7, 2022, it became known about the transfer of Mark Rivkin to Postgres Professional. In this company, an Oracle DBMS expert has been appointed head of technical consulting.

According to the press service of Postgres Professional, under the leadership of Rivkin, the company will create a team of technical consultants, consisting of the most experienced specialists who previously worked at Oracle. Rivkin himself stood at the origins of the creation of the Oracle representative office in Russia and for more than 30 years contributed to the popularization, promotion and use of Oracle products, noted in Postgres Professional.

Mark Rivkin

Deputy General Director of Postgres Professional Ivan Panchenko, commenting on the arrival of Mark Rivkin with the team, called it a "big event" for the company.

Mark is well known in the Russian IT community as a specialist of the highest level. We are very glad that the rich expertise of this team will be aimed at developing and popularizing our products. This will help users to master Postgres Pro more easily, and migration to our DBMS will become easier and, I'm not afraid of this word, more pleasant, "Panchenko said.

In turn, Mark Rivkin said that he was glad to start working at Postgres Professional at a turning point in the departure of foreign companies from the Russian market. According to him, the Postgres Pro DBMS with its unique capabilities, highly professional development and support team can be considered as a replacement for Western DBMS in import substitution.

It is very important to help users who are looking for a replacement for Western DBMS today and are trying to minimize the risks of migration to Russian products. They often simply do not know that there are domestic solutions that are in no way inferior to Western counterparts, as well as proven migration tools and methodologies. Through solving customer problems, we will make Postgres better, and users happier, using the many years of experience of our team in this area, "Rivkin said.[1]

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