Matt Butrovich
Senior Distributed Database Engineer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Butrovich is a Senior Distributed Database Engineer at Apple and an Apache DataFusion committer who applies a rare blend of systems research and production engineering to accelerate query engines like Apache DataFusion Comet on Apache Arrow. He holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon where his work explored OS–DBMS co-design using safe kernel extension mechanisms like eBPF, and he has translated that deep research background into practical performance and correctness contributions across self-driving database projects such as NoisePage and Peloton. With over eight years of experience dating back to firmware validation at Western Digital, Matt brings a hardware-aware perspective to distributed query execution and storage-aware optimizations. Known on GitHub as a "Databaseologist," he focuses on low-level performance fixes, testing infrastructure, and transaction semantics that improve real-world DBMS robustness.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Achievement, Computer Science, Certificate of Achievement, Computer Science at Irvine Valley CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (22)
transaction10
c-language10
llvm10
testing10
databases10
cmake10
transactionscope10
googletest10
performance-optimization10
transaction-manager10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
concurrency10
database10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cmu-db/noisepage
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
Self-Driving Database Management System from Carnegie Mellon University
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:120 reviews, 230 commits, 706 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt's commits primarily focus on the implementation and testing of database functionality. The contributions include the addition of Google Test support in the CMake configuration, along with the creation of sample tests. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the BlockStore, addressing a bug in NewBlock functionality and incorporating associated tests to ensure correctness. They also made changes to the database schema, and worked on the inclusion of read-only transactions with the addition of a new setting `wal_async_commit_enable`.
management-systemdbmsdatabase-management-systemcarnegie-mellon-universityself-driving
cmu-db/peloton
May 2018 - Sep 2018
The Self-Driving Database Management System
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:33 commits, 29 PRs, 86 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focuses on performance optimization and bug fixes related to the database management system. They refactored transaction management to improve performance, particularly by moving stats-related checks and tasks to the end of transactions. The user also addressed LLVM compatibility issues and made changes to the code generation components. Additional work involved refactoring and improving the TileGroupHeader component.
management-systemrdbmsdatabase-management-systemself-drivingdatabase
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