Narendra Tawar
Sr Database Specialist Solutions Architect - PostgreSQL
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Narendra Tawar is a Senior Database Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, bringing over two decades of experience across Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL, including a decade of deep PostgreSQL specialization. He partners with enterprises to architect, migrate, and optimize PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS and Aurora, with a focus on target architecture, isolation and sharding, and performance at scale. His current work centers on bringing Generative AI into data workflows, from pgvector-powered applications to AI-assisted database operations. A frequent speaker on the global PostgreSQL stage, Narendra has presented at Percona Live Amsterdam, P2D2 Prague, PGConf India, PostgreSQL Meetup Berlin, and AWS Summits.
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P2D2 Prague: SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching - Jan 2026
Beyond basic SQL injection this talk uncovers advanced PostgreSQL attack vectors including privilege escalation via extensions/FDWs, timing and side-channel attacks, abuse of logical replication and LISTEN/NOTIFY for data exfiltration, and role inheritance/RLS pitfalls. Includes practical defense-in-depth strategies.
PGConf India : SQL Injection Is Boring Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching - March 2026
SQL injection is just the beginning. In production PostgreSQL environments, subtle misconfigurations and overlooked features open doors to far more sophisticated attacks. This talk goes beyond the basics to uncover real-world threats: privilege escalation via extensions and foreign data wrappers, timing and side-channel attacks that extract secrets through query latency, abuse of logical replication, and pitfalls in role inheritance and row-level security. Walk away with actionable defenses for each.
https://live.pgconf.in/pgconfin/pgconf-india-2026/schedule/152
PostgreSQL Berlin March 2026 Meetup: The Role of PostgreSQL in the AI World - March 2026
PostgreSQL's extensibility and advanced data capabilities make it a natural fit for AI workloads. This talk explores how PostgreSQL supports AI pipelines—from managing large datasets and integrating with ML frameworks to leveraging extensions like pgml, pgvector, and TimescaleDB. Attendees will learn best practices for optimizing PostgreSQL for AI inference and building AI-ready data architectures with open source tools.
AI-Powered Database Migration with AWS DMS and Amazon Q - April 2026
How Amazon Q integration with AWS DMS eliminates migration friction validating configurations before tasks run, diagnosing failures across multiple system layers, and translating errors into executable remediation steps. A live demo showing how AI augments database migration workflows, making them faster, more reliable, and accessible regardless of AWS expertise depth.
AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026- DAT402: Essentials for migrating from Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
Schema conversion: NUMBER types, packages, PL/SQL
Aurora architecture: Provisioned, Serverless, Global Database
Performance: VACUUM, indexing, partitioning
Monitoring: CloudWatch Database Insights vs Oracle Enterprise Manager
AWS HouseWarming Amsterdam - Amazon Aurora HA and DR design patterns for global resilience- May 2026
Amazon Aurora is a serverless relational database with unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL. Aurora provides managed high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities in and across AWS Regions. In this session, explore the Aurora HA and DR capabilities and discover design patterns that enable the development of resilient applications. Learn how to establish in-Region and cross-Region HA and DR using Aurora features including Multi-AZ deployments and Aurora Global Database, and how Aurora DSQL multi-Region clusters provides the highest level of availability and application resilence.
Percona Live Amsterdam 2026: SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You're Not Watching - Septem
Presented at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026. Beyond basic SQL injection, this talk uncovers advanced PostgreSQL attack vectors: privilege escalation via extensions and Foreign Data Wrappers, timing and side-channel attacks that extract secrets through query latency, abuse of logical replication, and pitfalls in role inheritance and Row-Level Security. Includes practical defense-in-depth strategies for hardening PostgreSQL.
Percona Live Amsterdam 2026: The Role of PostgreSQL in the AI World - September 2026
Presented at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026. Explores how PostgreSQL powers AI-driven applications — vector similarity search with pgvector, in-database machine learning with pgml, JSONB for AI-ready storage, RAG pipelines, and hybrid full-text plus semantic search. Covers performance tuning for AI inference workloads and building intelligent applications on open-source foundations.
https://perconalive.com/2026-amsterdam/talks/the-role-of-postgresql-in-the-ai-world/
Narendra Tawar
Sr Database Specialist Solutions Architect - PostgreSQL
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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