About
I’m Jeff Mealo, a Senior Software Engineer at Gisual where I build outage-analytics platforms powered by CloudNativePG.
What I Do
I work at the intersection of PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and developer tooling. My focus areas:
- PostgreSQL - Performance tuning, replication, and operational excellence
- CloudNativePG - Running Postgres on Kubernetes the right way
- Agentic Development - Building AI-powered developer tools
- Open Source - Contributing to projects I use and believe in
Open Source
I’m the creator of Lapidus, a tool for streaming database changes from PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. I also contribute to CloudNativePG, where I’ve fixed bugs in the instance manager and improved the plugin system.
I was featured in the CloudNativePG Contributor Spotlight.
CloudNativePG Contributions
- Fixed critical bug in instance manager connection handling
- PR #6153 - Set user-agent on cnpg plugin requests
- PR #7010 - Treat timeout errors as retryable for volume snapshots
Background
I discovered my passion for technology early - creating video game fan sites at age 9-10 and eventually running a computer salvage operation on eBay by age 11 to fund a dedicated server.
I studied at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and have been building software professionally for over a decade.