• Alastair Turner

    Alastair Turner

    Postgres and Community @ Percona

    Since 1995, Alastair has deployed, administered, programmed and supported all things database, from Access to Universe, settling on Postgres around 2002. He recently left the dark side of vendor presales and currently works in community advocacy at Percona.

  • Alvaro Hernandez

    Alvaro Hernandez

    OnGres, Founder

    Álvaro is a passionate database and software developer. Founder of OnGres ("ON postGRES"), he has been dedicated to Postgres and R&D in databases for more than two decades.

    Álvaro is at heart an open source advocate and developer. He has created software like StackGres, a Platform for running Postgres on Kubernetes or ToroDB (MongoDB on top of Postgres). As a well-known member of the PostgreSQL Community, Álvaro founded the non-profit Fundación PostgreSQL and the Spanish PostgreSQL User Group. He has contributed, among others, the SCRAM authentication library to the Postgres JDBC driver.

    You can find him frequently speaking at Postgres, Database, Cloud (becoming an AWS Data Hero in 2019), and Java conferences. In the last 10 years, Álvaro has completed more than 140 tech talks (https://aht.es).

  • Andrey Borodin

    Andrey Borodin

    Postgres hacker

    I'm doing Postgres every day.

  • Cary Huang

    Cary Huang

    Senior Software Developer at Hornetlabs

    Cary is a Senior Software Developer at Hornetlabs with over 10 years of industry experience in C/C++ software development.

    Before Hornetlabs, he worked in PostgreSQL and smart metering energy sector, designing innovative and scalable solutions for energy utilities. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC) since 2012, and has extensive expertise in networking, database internals, security, smart metering innovations, PostgreSQL databases, architecture design, as well as embedded systems.

    With a strong passion for open-source technologies and high-performance database systems, Cary continues to contribute to PostgreSQL development and innovative designs.

  • Cheng Chen

    Cheng Chen

    Co-Founder, Mooncake Labs

    Cheng Chen is a Co-Founder of Mooncake. Previously, he was a Principal Engineer at SingleStore, where he led vector search, full-text search, and extensibility. He has worked across various components of analytics systems, including columnstores and query execution. Cheng is a graduate of Tsinghua University and MIT.

  • David Wheeler

    David Wheeler

    Principal Architect and Chief Bread Maker, tembo.io

    David Wheeler is a long-time PostgreSQL contributor, and creator of Sqitch, a database change management system; PGXN, the PostgreSQL Extension Network; pgTAP, a database test framework, and CITEXT2, the case-insensitive data type. After stints with PostgreSQL Experts, iovation, and The New York Times, he now leads the extension ecosystem initiative for Tembo. He lives in New York City with his artist wife when they're not exchanging homes overseas.

  • Florents Tselai

    Florents Tselai

    Data Strategist & Engineer

    Florents Tselai (tsel.ai) comes to PostgreSQL from an analytics and data engineering background. He focuses on extending PostgreSQL to support more business and data engineering use cases. With experience across the entire data supply chain—from machine learning and predictive analytics to big data infrastructure—he works on making PostgreSQL a first-class citizen for tasks traditionally handled by external systems.

  • Hannu Krosing

    Hannu Krosing

    The Bicycle Repairman for PostgreSQL. SQL Prompt Engineer. Maker of small patches

    Hannu has been working with PostgreSQL since it was called Postgres95 (and also played around with Postgres 4.2 - without the "SQL" - a little before that)

    Hannu was the first DBA at Skype, where he wrote patches for making VACUUM able to work on more than one table in parallel and invented the sharding and remote call language pl/proxy to enable using PostgreSQL in infinitely scalable way and also participated in design of other 24/7 enterprise features.

    After Skype he did 10+ years of PostgreSQL consulting all over the world as part of 2ndQuadrant.

    Currently works as a Database Engineer at Google

  • Mehmet Yilmaz

    Mehmet Yilmaz

    Senior Software Developer at Microsoft

    Mehmet Yilmaz is a Senior Software Developer at Microsoft, , currently focused on advancing the Citus project to deliver a robust and scalable database solution.

  • Paul Jungwirth

    Paul Jungwirth

    Illuminated Computing, owner

    Paul is a freelance software developer in Portland, Oreogon. He has built applications with Postgres since 2010 and is the author of several extensions. His Postgres contributions include work on GiST indexes, multiranges, and SQL:2011 application-time features.

  • Phil Eaton

    Phil Eaton

    Staff Engineer at EnterpriseDB

    Phil is a developer on the EDB Postgres Distributed team at EnterpriseDB. His interests are in data storage, replication and consensus, and testing.

  • Ruohang Feng

    Ruohang Feng

    FOSS RDS PG - Pigsty Author / Founder

    Author of Pigsty, the FOSS RDS PG
    Postgres Freelancer, CN Influencer
    https://vonng.com

  • Sweta Vooda

    Sweta Vooda

    Master’s Student in Computer Science, Georgia Tech

    Sweta Vooda is a Master’s student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech specializing in Computing Systems. Her interests lie at the intersection of Databases, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, and Infrastructure. She has worked on research projects involving Postgres extensions and vector search, including pgvector-remote, a prototype that integrates Postgres with remote vector databases like Pinecone. Sweta has interned at AWS and Sigma Computing, and previously worked at Amazon as a software engineer. She is passionate about building high-performance systems.

  • Yurii Rashkovskii

    Yurii Rashkovskii

    Founder at Omnigres

    Yurii is a software developer with a few decades of experience and a keen interest in reducing complexity in software.

    He's contributing to a number of open-source projects and is currently focused on Postgres-related projects and Omnigres in particular.

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