Nazneen Jafri
Amazon Web Services
Nazneen Jafri has spent nearly two decades in the trenches of large-scale production environments, developing an instinct for the kinds of problems that only surface when systems are under real pressure. Her career has spanned hands-on infrastructure and technical leadership at JPMorgan Chase and Ford Motor Company — where she built deep expertise across Crunchy PostgreSQL, GCP Cloud SQL, and large-scale enterprise platforms — to engineering and leadership roles at AWS, where she led the RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL team as Engineering Manager before returning to her first love: the deep technical work of understanding how databases actually behave in production. She currently focuses on RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL internals, performance, and contributing back to the open-source community. When she's not chasing down obscure storage-layer and performance edge cases, she's probably thinking about the next one.
Upcoming presentations
Every PostgreSQL database needs regular cleanup to stay healthy and fast - that's what VACUUM does. In this talk, we'll break down VACUUM in a way that's easy to understand. We'll look at how VACUUM has gotten better in recent versions, share tips to make it run smoothly, and show you how to fix common problems like slow-running queries and wasted storage space. Whether you're a developer worki...
Apr 22 2026