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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: "Contributor Spotlight: Jonathan Battiato" |
| 3 | +date: 2025-06-10T13:00:43+02:00 |
| 4 | +draft: false |
| 5 | +image: |
| 6 | + url: johnny.png |
| 7 | + attribution: |
| 8 | +author: fdrees |
| 9 | +tags: |
| 10 | + - kubernetes |
| 11 | + - UX |
| 12 | + - postgresql |
| 13 | + - open-source |
| 14 | + - |
| 15 | + - spotlight |
| 16 | +summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community. |
| 17 | + Today we meet Jonathan Battiato, who sums up his contributions to the project |
| 18 | + as: "I help"." |
| 19 | +--- |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. In a |
| 22 | +mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our |
| 23 | +maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +Today we meet [Jonathan Battiato](https://github.com/jbattiato), an engineer |
| 26 | +on the Cloud Native team at EDB. He was working on 2ndQuadrant’s Cloud Native |
| 27 | +team when the CloudNativePG project (then under a different name) was first |
| 28 | +conceived. His first contribution to the project must have been reported a bug, |
| 29 | +Jonathan says he's "good at breaking things". Most of his contributions since |
| 30 | +then have been in improving the user experience. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +Even though the CloudNativePG Operator is really a great, stable, easy-to-use, |
| 33 | +and a production-ready product, there are many aspects of the project that |
| 34 | +still require improvements and/or rewriting. Most of them are already on the |
| 35 | +roadmap. Jonathan is keen to improve the user experience for the docs. "The |
| 36 | +documentation is... a lot. Sometimes I worry one could get lost in it." Jonathan |
| 37 | +had hoped to work on some hands-on-labs style tutorials to be published on the |
| 38 | +website, but simply hasn't had the time to dedicate to it. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +Jonathan is as a long-time member of the local Linux User Group (in Prato). |
| 41 | +While he's been more of a lurker than an active member of any other community, |
| 42 | +he's changing this with his involvement in the Data on Kubernetes community. |
| 43 | +Giving talks, and writing a knowledge base about benchmarking storage solutions |
| 44 | +in Kubernetes, is what earned him his DoK Ambassador status. |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +Jonathan got into technology because of tv shows like Ghostbusters, MacGyver, |
| 47 | +and A-Team. "I’ve always been interested in science and technology. When my |
| 48 | +best friend introduced me to Linux through the Debian project, my fate was |
| 49 | +decided. Since then, I worked as a Linux SysAdmin, a PostgreSQL Admin, and a |
| 50 | +Kubernetes Admin." It takes a special kind of nerd to answer the question |
| 51 | +"what are you most notorious for?" with: my PostgreSQL benchmarks... |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +When he (finally) grows up, Jonathan wants to be an astronaut, looking for |
| 54 | +new civilizations like in Star Trek. "Earthlings are disappointing." Present |
| 55 | +company not withstanding, I hope. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +You can find Jonathan in the CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace, |
| 58 | +or [on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jonnylee), or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanbattiato/). |
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