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# Contributor Spotlight:
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Building and maintaining and open source project takes a village. In a
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Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. In a
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mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our
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title: "Contributor Spotlight: Jonathan Battiato"
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date: 2025-06-10T13:00:43+02:00
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url: johnny.png
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attribution:
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author: fdrees
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- kubernetes
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- UX
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- postgresql
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- open-source
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- spotlight
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summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
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Today we meet Jonathan Battiato, who sums up his contributions to the project
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as: "I help"."
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Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. In a
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mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our
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maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.
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Today we meet [Jonathan Battiato](https://github.com/jbattiato), an engineer
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on the Cloud Native team at EDB. He was working on 2ndQuadrant’s Cloud Native
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team when the CloudNativePG project (then under a different name) was first
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conceived. His first contribution to the project must have been reported a bug,
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Jonathan says he's "good at breaking things". Most of his contributions since
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then have been in improving the user experience.
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Even though the CloudNativePG Operator is really a great, stable, easy-to-use,
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and a production-ready product, there are many aspects of the project that
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still require improvements and/or rewriting. Most of them are already on the
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roadmap. Jonathan is keen to improve the user experience for the docs. "The
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documentation is... a lot. Sometimes I worry one could get lost in it." Jonathan
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had hoped to work on some hands-on-labs style tutorials to be published on the
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website, but simply hasn't had the time to dedicate to it.
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Jonathan is as a long-time member of the local Linux User Group (in Prato).
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While he's been more of a lurker than an active member of any other community,
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he's changing this with his involvement in the Data on Kubernetes community.
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Giving talks, and writing a knowledge base about benchmarking storage solutions
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in Kubernetes, is what earned him his DoK Ambassador status.
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Jonathan got into technology because of tv shows like Ghostbusters, MacGyver,
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and A-Team. "I’ve always been interested in science and technology. When my
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best friend introduced me to Linux through the Debian project, my fate was
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decided. Since then, I worked as a Linux SysAdmin, a PostgreSQL Admin, and a
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Kubernetes Admin." It takes a special kind of nerd to answer the question
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"what are you most notorious for?" with: my PostgreSQL benchmarks...
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When he (finally) grows up, Jonathan wants to be an astronaut, looking for
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new civilizations like in Star Trek. "Earthlings are disappointing." Present
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company not withstanding, I hope.
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You can find Jonathan in the CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace,
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or [on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jonnylee), or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanbattiato/).
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