Sigayev Fedor Gennadyevich

Sigayev Fedor Gennadyevich

In 1996 graduated from physical faculty MSU. Worked in one of the first web studios of the country of Makhaon. After that worked in the companies Rambler Stack Group Mail.ru. In the last he took part in several projects: "Agent", "My world", Goods – built architecture of storage systems and search, participated in their development. Tells that laid a hand to DBMS Tarantool and derivative of it, for example, to the rate limit system for nginx which traces too frequent requests from the different addresses that gives the grounds these addresses to check, reveal bots and their network. In Mail.ru Sigayev worked the leading architect six years.

Since 2000 — the PostgreSQL DBMS developer. Together with Oleg Bartunov developed for PostgreSQL the system of full-text search, means of support of semistructured data, indexed access methods, including to space data, and other functionality of this platform. They even had customers, for example, of 1C and Novartis with whom programmers worked as freelancers. They thought of creating the company since 2005.

At the beginning of 2015 Fedor Sigayev became the cofounder of new company Postgres Professional. The startup was engaged in development, implementation and promotion of PostgreSQL in Russia.

Sigayev is recognized that he was never going to go on a drive line, and in the childhood did not dream to become the chief, wanted to be the scientist-physicist, to pursue science. the 1990th corrected these dreams, and he found more monetary, and as it appeared further, not less interesting profession of the programmer.

About why Fedor passed from the known company into young beginning and what pluses of a startup - in article "The cemetery of programmers. Why not all IT shniki want to work in corporations".