Andrei Lepikhov
Staff Software Engineer at Black AeroSpace
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolAndrei Lepikhov is a Staff Software Engineer and Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in PostgreSQL internals, query optimisation and distributed query execution with over a decade of professional experience. He has led R&D and feature development at Postgres Professional—authoring techniques like Switch Join, query re-optimisation and query plan freezing—and now drives database engineering at pgEdge while heading scientific efforts at Black AeroSpace. Before focusing on databases he spent eight years as a senior scientist in aerospace doing CAE modeling and thermal analysis for hypersonic vehicles, bringing rigorous numerical and systems-thinking to DBMS design. An experienced team lead and lecturer, he blends academic research, open-source contribution and practical product delivery across complex systems. Twice awarded by the President of the Russian Federation for inventions in computing and aerospace, he pairs deep technical inventiveness with production-grade engineering. Based in Madrid, he’s also an avid marathoner and table tennis player, a detail that hints at his persistence and discipline in tackling long-running engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Miass Middle School N. 18Specialist Mathematics and System Programming, Specialist Mathematics and System Programming at Chelyabinsk State UniversityLomonosov Moscow State University
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
postgresql10
query-optimization10
optimization10
testing9
sqlite9
replication9
clustering9
fuzzing8
database8
dbms8
large-object8
toolchain8
sql8
connection-pool8
logical-replication8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
danolivo/pgdev
Jun 2018 - Jul 2026
My experiments with mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository.
Contributions:4 PRs, 1887 pushes, 117 branches in 8 years 2 months
postgresql
danolivo/pg_index_stats
Dec 2023 - Jun 2025
Create extended statistics on an index manually or automatically
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 156 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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