docs(blog): add contributor highlight Philippe Scorsolini (#288)

Signed-off-by: Floor Drees <floordrees@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jaime Silvela <jaime.silvela@enterprisedb.com>

Author: FloorD

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+title: "Contributor Spotlight: Philippe Scorsolini"
+date: 2025-05-04T14:51:43+02:00
+draft: false
+image:
+    url: philippe.png
+    attribution:
+author: fdrees
+tags:
+ - prometheus
+ - pooler
+ - kubernetes
+ - postgresql
+ - open-source
+summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
+  Today we meet Philippe Scorsolini, Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Upbound,
+  and CloudNativePG maintainer."
+---
+
+Building and maintaining and 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.
+
+Today's spotlight: [Philippe Scorsolini](https://github.com/phisco/), 
+based in Italy. Philippe is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at 
+Upbound, working on their Spaces product, and maintaining the Crossplane 
+project.
+
+Coming from an infrastructure background, Philippe focused on Kubernetes 
+and knew PostgreSQL as a user, but not as an administrator. "However, 
+I was always fascinated by PostgreSQL!" So, when the team at EDB reached 
+out for a position working on a Kubernetes controller for it, he accepted 
+right away. That operator of course is now known as CloudNativePG. "Once 
+it was open-sourced, although I wasn’t working on it full-time anymore, 
+they made me a maintainer, which I feel honored by."
+
+His first contribution to the project was small, just adding a name to 
+the metrics port to allow it to be easily discovered by the Prometheus 
+operator. The next one was more interesting: Philippe was one of the 
+people introducing the current framework used to parse Postgres logs and 
+output them in JSON. If he could ask for one thing to be improved in 
+CloudNativePG, it would have to be the Pooler resource. "Through the years, 
+as a CloudNativePG user, I’ve ended up hitting a few of its limitations. 
+We always wanted to support more poolers, but never got around to it." Yet.
+
+Philippe grew up in a small city in Italy nearby the border with Slovenia, 
+and then moved to Milan when he went to University. He was always interested 
+in technology, not just computers, but more broadly understanding how things 
+worked. "I enjoy experimenting and iterating fast. Technology, and open-source 
+more specifically, was just the best playground I could find for merging the 
+two aspects: everything is just a few clicks away, and iterating has negligible 
+costs." Philippe does not expect he'll ever lose interest.
+
+If you wanted to get in touch with Philippe, you can find him in the 
+CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace, or on 
+[Twitter](https://twitter.com/Phisc0) or [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/phisco.bsky.social).