Brian Rowe
Sr. Software Engineer at StrongDM
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Rowe is a senior software engineer based in Portland, Oregon with nine years in recent roles and two decades of systems experience spanning storage, distributed data, and infrastructure. He led the Timescale Toolkit analytics team and made substantive back-end contributions to the widely used TimescaleDB Postgres extension—working on catalog metadata, distributed data node management, compression, and telemetry. Brian has held senior engineering roles at StrongDM, Pivotal, Nimble, Google, and Intel, bringing deep expertise in database internals, large-scale HTTP routing, and storage file systems. Known for bridging hands-on implementation with technical leadership, he excels at improving core infrastructure and analytics pipelines while mentoring teams to ship reliable, performance-sensitive systems.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Sciences at University of OregonMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Portland State University
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databases10
timescaledb10
database-administration10
postgresql10
sql10
database10
c119
c179
data-structures8
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Github contributions (5)
timescale/timescaledb
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:87 reviews, 65 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions primarily focused on modifying and improving the TimescaleDB codebase, a time-series database built as a PostgreSQL extension. The user made significant changes to database catalog metadata, including table and file renames, the addition of a new telemetry column, and the handling of distributed database operations. They enhanced functionalities related to data node management, including creating, attaching, and deleting data nodes. They also made changes related to compression and analysis of chunk data.
postgresql-extensionfinancial-analysiscomplex-queriestime-seriestsdb
WireBaron/geode
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
Mirror of Apache Geode
Contributions:131 pushes, 94 branches in 1 year 6 months
wcswfsapachejavageotools
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