docs(blog): contributor highlight David Wheeler (#295)

* docs(blog): contributor highlight David Wheeler

Signed-off-by: Floor Drees <[email protected]>

Author: FloorD

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+title: "Contributor Spotlight: David Wheeler"
+date: 2025-05-26T13:51:43+02:00
+draft: false
+image:
+    url: theory.jpg
+    attribution:
+author: fdrees
+tags:
+ - PGXN
+ - pgTAP
+ - Sqitch
+ - postgresql
+ - open-source
+summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
+  Today we meet David Wheeler, Principal Architect at Tembo, and PGXN 
+  maintainer."
+---
+
+Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. In a
+mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our
+maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.
+
+This week the spotlight shines on David Wheeler, or: [_theory_](https://github.com/theory), 
+Principal Architect at Tembo, and PGXN maintainer. You might have heard of 
+David's work on pgTAP, a suite of database functions that make it easy to 
+write TAP-emitting unit tests in `psql` scripts or xUnit-style test functions. 
+Or Sqitch, the database change management application. He's also the "bull-
+headed guy who ported SQL/JSON Path to Go" ([Playground](https://theory.github.io/sqljson/)). 
+The man keeps busy... 
+
+He's not quite sure where he first heard about CloudNativePG; maybe at a 
+PGConf? "I was kind of aware of it as a thing when I started at Tembo, which 
+is where I actually got to know it."
+
+His first formal contributions to the project were documentation improvements: 
+defining RPO and RTO. David also advocated for [the extension search path patch](https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/4913/), 
+a game-changing... change! 
+
+On his list of improvements he wishes for in CloudNativePG: "I'd like to 
+get the Postgres core and CloudNativePG to the point where extensions can 
+be 'installed' via immutable Docker images without requiring cluster 
+configuration changes (and a service restart)!"
+
+David first got into Tech building web pages for himself and fellow grad 
+students that anyone on the internet could look at in NCSA Mosaic, anywhere 
+in the world. It checks out then when he next shares that he has "no intention 
+of growing up", and that he'd like his legacy to be that he inspired people 
+through empathy, compassion, creativity, and passion.
+
+David is a member of several communities, including but not limited to the 
+XOXO Festival, the Rands Leadership Slack, and of course the Postgres 
+community. He's also himself building quite a community around the Postgres 
+tooling ecosystem, organizing virtual and in-person events to discuss the 
+current state and future of Postgres extension registration, packaging, and 
+distribution. Keep an eye on https://justatheory.com/ so you don't miss out 
+on any of the fun!
+
+You can find David in the CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace, 
+or [on Mastodon](https://xoxo.zone/@theory/) or [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/theory.fyi).