Team

The people behind NEXTGRES

Jonah Harris

Jonah Harris

Co-Founder & CTO

Jonah built the personalization systems behind hundreds of millions of users at ParshipMeet and Noom — systems that outperformed TikTok's Monolith recommender. He served as CTO of MariaDB and The Meet Group, was a founding engineer at EnterpriseDB, and was instrumental in adding Oracle compatibility to IBM DB2. He is a member of the Oracle OakTable Network and a longstanding Postgres contributor.

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Joe Cotellese

Joe Cotellese

Co-Founder & CEO

Joe is a product and commercial executive who has scaled platforms serving over 1M daily active users, managed $40M+ in SaaS product portfolios, and been part of teams responsible for more than $275M in successful exits. Over 20 years in leadership he has specialized in go-to-market strategy, portfolio management, and operational restructuring within high-growth and turnaround environments.

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Together they were part of the turnaround team that restructured MariaDB from a $52M loss to profitability and a $100M+ exit.