Payal Singh is a Staff Data Engineer with 14+ years of experience in Postgres reliability engineering, designing scalable database infrastructure for mission-critical workloads. She specializes in high-availability architectures, performance tuning, and distributed PostgreSQL systems. Recently, her work has focused on applying database reliability engineering concepts to AI platforms, building RAG and multi-agent workflows where PostgreSQL acts as a control plane for orchestration, observability, evaluation, and as an all-round verifiability substrate. Payal has spoken at SCaLE, pgCon.dev, Percona Live, and other PostgreSQL community events.

Website: https://payalsingh.me

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/payalsingh

GitHub: https://github.com/payals

Technical Blog: https://medium.com/@reliable-by-design/