Koichi Suzuki
Senior Principal Support Engineer at EDB
Asao-ku, Kanagawa, Japan
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Top SchoolKoichi Suzuki is a seasoned database architect and Senior Principal Support Engineer with over 12 years of focused experience and a multi-decade career shaping database systems, standards and localization efforts. He has led open-source distributed PostgreSQL projects (Postgres-XC/XL), contributed advanced features to PostgreSQL (including multi-database deadlock detection and work on parallel redo), and guided enterprise adoption and recovery performance improvements at EDB and NTT. His background ranges from low-level localization work—co‑inventing EUC and developing Japanese fonts—to porting commercial databases to Unix and designing large-scale parallel and GPU/FPGA-informed analytics infrastructures. Known for visionary system design and pragmatic verification, he blends deep research experience (MIT visiting researcher) with hands-on engineering and team leadership. Based in Kanagawa, Japan, he uniquely combines standards-level encoding expertise with practical, production-grade distributed database architecture.
12 years of coding experience
46 years of employment as a software developer
Sendai First HighschoolMS, Applied Physics, MS, Applied Physics at Tohoku University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (39)
plpgsql10
postgresql-database10
postgresql-extension10
sourceforge9
database-replication8
logical-decoding8
recovery8
postgresql8
lists7
logical-replication7
backup6
data-transformation6
mailing6
barman6
git-repository6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
koichi-szk/postgres
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
For local PostgreSQL code development by Koichi Suzuki
Contributions:73 commits, 1 PR, 98 pushes in 11 months
deadlock-detectionpostgrespostgresqlcode-developmentplpgsql
postgres-x2/postgres-x2
May 2015 - Dec 2016
Master Postgres-XC source repository
Contributions:207 commits, 36 PRs, 195 pushes in 1 year 7 months
postgresql-databasepostgresql-extensionmasterpostgrespostgresql
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