Annie Pompa is a Member of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs with six years of experience building reliable back-end systems and databases. She contributes to CockroachDB’s core, adding SQL features and improving observability and testing workflows for a high-availability distributed SQL database used at scale. Her background blends systems engineering with teaching—she has repeatedly instructed programming languages and data structures at Indiana University—bringing clear communication and mentorship into engineering teams. Past internships at Cockroach and UPS and research work in natural logic and VR show a practical curiosity across databases, web stacks, and applied research. Notably, she has hands-on experience touching both storage-level components (Pebble) and SQL surface area, giving her a rare full-stack perspective on database internals.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS/MS, Computer Science, BS/MS, Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:576 reviews, 1 commit, 279 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Annie primarily contributed to the back-end development of the CockroachDB project. Their work involved implementing and extending SQL functionality, specifically adding a new session variable and adding functionality to the `crdb_internal.cluster_locks` table. They also made changes related to the roachtest testing framework, including refactoring request parameters, adding Grafana links to issue posts, and addressing a bug in the grafana link generation. The user demonstrated skills in SQL development and database management.
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Annie Pompa - Member Of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs