Andrei Lepikhov
Staff Software Engineer at pgEdge
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
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Github Skills (37)
postgresql10
query-optimization10
optimization10
logic10
mysql9
testing9
modular9
sqlite9
sql9
clustering9
fuzzing8
database8
clang8
dbms8
toolchain8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
danolivo/pgdev
Jun 2018 - Apr 2025
My experiments with mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository.
Contributions:4 PRs, 1500 pushes, 85 branches in 6 years 11 months
patchgit-repositorypull-requestspostgrespostgresql
danolivo/jo-bench
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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