I am Noémi, also known as kvch. I have a decade of experience as a software engineer. Throughout my career, I have primarily focused on open source software development. Now I am senior backend engineer building a hosted PostgreSQL service at Xata. Also, I worked on pgroll, a CLI for safe and reversible schema migrations for PostgreSQL.
In the past at Elastic, I worked on Beats where maintained Libbeat, contributed to Filebeat, Functionbeat and created Journalbeat. I also contributed to syslog-ng while I was at Balabit (acquired by One Identity).
In addition to my professional work, I served as a maintainer for searx, a privacy-respecting metasearch engine, for 6 years.
E-mail: sitbackandwait{at}gmail{dot}com
Published in February 2026