Jens Nikolaus

My career was shaped in distinct blocks Last.fm in London, start-ups and studios in Berlin, then enterprise platforms in the US. The last eight years have been Enterprise B2B and developer tooling: HPE GreenLake, then pganalyze, where I lead product and design initiatives alongside engineers solving deep, technical problems for technical users, and their managers.

Recent Highlights

Shipped with the pganalyze team

2026

MCP Server

AI assistants like Claude Code and Cursor connect to pganalyze to query metrics, inspect plans, and review open issues.

2025Query Advisor
2025Query Tuning Workbooks
2024Index Advisor 3.0
2023VACUUM Advisor
2022Automatic Postgres Indexing

WIP

What I’m building right now, when I’m not at work.

Notes

Good Design Work in Progress Letter to Future Self From Execution to Taking Ownership Before We Talk More Design, Here's My Story I Was the Fastest Designer in Figma. It Didn't Matter.Design Principles at pganalyze