Marius Posta
Software Engineer at Distill
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMarius Posta is a software engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating data-intensive, distributed systems, currently contributing at Distill after senior engineering and leadership roles at Airbyte and Cockroach Labs. He led teams and technical initiatives around SQL schema management and transactional, online schema changes for a scalable PostgreSQL-compatible database, and has hands-on backend contributions to the popular open-source data integration project Airbyte (notably improving the Postgres source connector). With a PhD in Computer Science & Operations Research, Marius blends rigorous algorithmic thinking with pragmatic engineering—building everything from ETL pipelines and statistical models to production-ready distributed databases. He’s comfortable shifting between individual contributor and management roles, seeding technical leverage and healthier team practices while still shipping critical low-level fixes. An interesting quirk: his early work included ERP development in an object-oriented Lisp dialect, reflecting deep curiosity about language and system design.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science & Operations Research, PhD Computer Science & Operations Research at Université de MontréalMaster Computer Science Operations Research, Master Computer Science Operations Research at Avignon Université
English, French, German
Github Skills (8)
javas10
postgresql10
java10
jdbc9
change-data-capture8
cdc8
debezium8
data-engineering7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1214 reviews, 720 PRs, 1227 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Marius primarily focused on enhancing the source-postgres connector. Their contributions include allowing configuration of the "options=" parameter in the source-postgres JDBC URL and fixing a bug related to jsonb[] handling. Additionally, the user updated the test framework by enabling the test environment for the specific connector and removed references to buildConnectorImage to avoid circular dependencies.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
postamar/cockroach
Nov 2020 - Jul 2023
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:2 PRs, 973 pushes, 415 branches in 2 years 8 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
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