About the Authors

Manpreet Kaur currently works as a business intelligence solution developer at an IT-based MNC in Chandigarh. She has over 7 years of work experience in the field of developing successful analytical solutions in data warehousing, analytics and reporting, and portal and dashboard development in the PostgreSQL and Oracle databases. She has worked on business intelligence tools such as Noetix, SSRS, Tableau, and OBIEE.  She has a good understanding of ETL tools such as Informatica and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). Currently, she works on analytical solutions using Hadoop and OBIEE 12c.

Additionally, she is very creative and enjoys oil painting. She also has a youtube channel, Oh so homemade, where she posts easy ways to make recycled crafts.

Baji Shaik is a database administrator and developer. He is currently working as a database consultant at OpenSCG. He has an engineering degree in telecommunications, and he started his career as a C# and Java developer. He started working with databases in 2011 and, over the years, he has worked with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Greenplum. His background spans a wide depth and breadth of expertise and experience in SQL/NoSQL database technologies. He has architectured and designed many successful database solutions addressing challenging business requirements. He has provided solutions using PostgreSQL for reporting, business intelligence, data warehousing, applications, and development support. He has a good knowledge of automation, orchestration, and DevOps in a cloud environment.

He comes from a small village named Vutukutu in Andhra Pradesh and currently lives in Hyderabad. He likes to watch movies, read books, and write technical blogs. He loves to spend time with family. He has tech-reviewed Troubleshooting PostgreSQL by Packt Publishing. He is a certified PostgreSQL professional.