Reid Thompson
Senior Software Development Engineer at Genex Services
Oxford, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolReid Thompson is a Senior Software Development Engineer and PostgreSQL specialist with 12 years of focused experience in healthcare and pharmacy systems, and over two decades working with databases and UNIX/Linux systems. He blends deep DBA skills—managing multi-terabyte PostgreSQL deployments, replication, backups (pgBackRest), and performance tuning—with hands-on systems and application development in C, Ruby, shell scripting, and Java. At Crunchy Data he contributed core enhancements to pgBackRest (including SFTP support and TLS fixes) and maintained strict code quality standards, reflecting his commitment to reliable backup and restore tooling for PostgreSQL. Reid’s background in HIPAA-sensitive environments and production monitoring/alerting gives him a practical, risk-aware approach to engineering critical patient-facing systems. Based in Oxford, NC, he pairs long-term operational experience with open-source contributions that improve consistency and configurability in widely used PostgreSQL tooling.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BA/BS Bus. Mngt/Agri-Bus. Mngt, BA/BS Bus. Mngt/Agri-Bus. Mngt at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (17)
postgresql10
configuration-management10
recover10
c1110
c1710
backup10
re-store10
command-line-interface9
command-line9
cli9
testing8
archiving8
tls127
libtls7
tls137
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pgbackrest/pgbackrest
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:173 reviews, 31 commits, 30 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Reid's commits primarily focused on enhancing the pgbackrest project, a tool for PostgreSQL backup and restore. Their contributions included fixing parameter mismatches in TLS client calls, adding a new command-line option (`--cmd`) for specifying an executable, and modifying the code to align backup log sizes with the output of the info command. These changes reflect a focus on improving the tool's functionality, configuration options, and overall consistency.
gzipbackup-restoredifferentialbackuprestore
jreidthompson/postgres
May 2022 - Sep 2024
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
Contributions:190 pushes, 14 branches, 2 comments in 2 years 3 months
patchgit-repositorypull-requestspostgrespostgresql
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