Matthew Emmerton
Senior Software Developer at IBM
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatthew Emmerton is a Senior Software Developer at IBM with deep expertise in database performance, benchmark development, and systems-level optimization for DB2 LUW across POWER and Intel platforms. He has a track record of driving product enhancements—such as native COS tablespaces and 4K sector support—while championing codebase health through dead-code removal and improved compiler support. Matthew combines hands-on C/C++ and SQL tuning with designing and executing TPC and SAP benchmarks, and he led the TPC-E subcommittee from 2008–2022, shaping industry benchmarking standards. He regularly partners with customers and ISVs to diagnose and resolve performance issues in complex deployments, including containerized and cloud environments. Known for building internal developer tools and performance QA automation, he blends practical engineering with long-term maintainability. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he brings a rare mix of low-level systems skill and benchmark-driven product leadership.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Construction Estimator, Construction Estimator at Conestoga CollegeB.Math, Computer Science, B.Math, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
benchmark10
postgresql10
mysql10
mariadb10
testing10
databases10
benchmarking10
db210
oracle10
sql10
hammerdb10
load-testing10
tpc10
oltp9
mssql9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
memmertoIBM/db2tcl
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
TCL language interface to Db2 databases.
Contributions:8 reviews, 3 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years
db2database-designdbmsdatabase-accesstcl
TPC-Council/HammerDB
Sep 2019 - Jul 2024
HammerDB Database Load Testing and Benchmarking Tool
Contributions:44 reviews, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 10 months
sqlserverbenchmarkingload-testingbenchmarkhammerdb
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