Murat Tuncer
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Ankara, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolMurat Tuncer is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years building resilient database and backend systems, currently at Microsoft and previously at Citus Data where he worked on distributed PostgreSQL extensions. He has deep expertise in Postgres internals and high-availability tooling, contributing to notable open-source projects like pg_auto_failover and Citus (including cstore_fdw) by shipping authentication options, failover fixes, insert support, and shard/replication improvements. His background spans embedded systems and R&D leadership, giving him a practical systems-oriented perspective from device firmware to cloud-scale databases. Based in Ankara, he blends hands-on C and systems work with DevOps practices, and has a track record of fixing subtle memory, build and replication bugs that improve stability in production.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bilkent UniversityN/A, N/A at UC Santa BarbaraAnkara Fen Lisesi
Github Skills (19)
postgresql10
high-availability10
databases10
c1110
c1710
foreign-data-wrapper10
postgresql-extension10
sql10
distributed-database10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
python9
data-storage9
database-administration8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
citusdata/cstore_fdw
Nov 2014 - Feb 2020
Columnar storage extension for Postgres built as a foreign data wrapper. Check out https://github.com/citusdata/citus for a modernized columnar storage implementation built as a table access method.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 144 commits, 108 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Murat primarily contributed to the cstore_fdw project by adding support for insert operations. They implemented features to allow inserting data into cstore tables from other tables. They also refactored code, fixed build errors, and addressed memory usage concerns. The user's work focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the foreign data wrapper, specifically concerning insert operations.
access-methodmethodcolumnar-storagecitusdatabase
citusdata/citus
Feb 2016 - May 2019
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:215 commits, 197 PRs, 980 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Murat's contributions primarily revolved around modifying the core functionality of the Citus database extension. They focused on changing the product name from "citusdb" to "citus" throughout the codebase, including file headers, configuration names, and error messages. Additionally, they implemented support for appending to cstore table shards, optimizing the handling of copy operations, and modifying table size calculations for these shards. They also worked on various database features, including unique index and window functions related fixes.
distributedrelational-databasesqlcitusscale
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