Thijs Lemmens

Bio

I am CTO at Xenit (part of Amexio Group since May 2025), where I've been working since 2011, and I lead the ContentGrid team. Over 15 years in enterprise content management — originally for the insurance sector — I worked with many different databases, and Postgres has become my database of choice. I almost exclusively run Postgres as a docker container.

Talk Description: Scaling Semantic Models: Bespoke PostgreSQL Schemas at SaaS Scale

While most CMS platforms rely on generic EAV tables, ContentGrid generates native PostgreSQL schemas directly from user-defined semantic models. We’ll discuss the challenges of automating DDL migrations for thousands of unique schemas and the infrastructure patterns we use to keep this model-driven approach performant, isolated, and manageable at scale.