My name is Selena Deckelmann and I’m founder and COO of Prime Radiant. Our first product Checkmarkable helps organizations document, share and tweak their processes.
I contribute to PostgreSQL, run conferences, and keep
chickens. I also give a lot of technical talks.
Third person version for bios
Selena Deckelmann specializes in producing open source software and conferences.
She is COO and founder of Prime Radiant. She’s an experienced developer and program manager. She started her career at Intel, and has worked for government, manufacturing and small businesses.
She’s a major contributor to PostgreSQL. She founded the Portland PostgreSQL Users Group in 2006.
She’s created three successful conference series about PostgreSQL, open source development and culture. She speaks internationally about free software, developer communities and trolling. Her interests include opening up government data with the City of Portland, urban chickens and finding ways to make databases run faster.
You can find her on twitter at @selenamarie.
She founded Postgres Open, a conference dedicated to the business of PostgreSQL and disruption of the database industry. She founded and co-chaired Open Source Bridge, a developer conference for open source citizens. She founded the PostgreSQL Conference, a successful series of east coast/west coast conferences in the US for PostgreSQL. She’s helped run other conferences like WhereCampPDX, BarCampPDX and PG Days.
She is currently on the organizing committees for PgCon and MySQL Users Conference. She’s a contributing writer for the Google Summer of Code Mentor Manual, and Student Guide.
You can contact her at selenamarie@gmail.com.
Want to know more?
Check out this Portland On Fire profile from January 6, 2008.
You can also find all the typical work-related stuff at:
LinkedIn
Selena tends to write about things like: women in Open Source, Open Source World Domination, and features that make PostgreSQL rock. She likes writing, generally. And can usually be convinced to write about things she’s up to. She also likes to draw monkeys.
Here are some other articles:
Free Space Map improvements and Visibility Map in PostgreSQL 8.4, March 2009
Ten new features that make PostgreSQL 8.3 a must-have, March 2008
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: New Features in Postgres 8.4, April 2009
She sometimes gets mentioned in blogs and press:
Postgres 8.4: We’ve got momentum
Community organized events vs. traditional conferences
Geek of the Week: Selena Deckelmann
Fun little projects:
PostgreSQL User Groups around the globe
About photos on the site
Anything unattributed is a photo my husband has or I have taken. Most of them are up on my flickr site. I shoot with a Nikon D40 (currently out of commission), an Cannon Elph, an iPhone 3G, a Droid 3 or a 30+ year old Fujica film camera.
About chesnok
‘chesnok’ means garlic in russian.
I studied Russian for two years in college. I was obsessed with Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam. My accent is terrible, and I can only barely read simple Russian anymore.