Robert Haas
VP, Chief Database Scientist
Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Haas is a veteran database architect and long-time PostgreSQL committer who currently serves as VP and Chief Database Architect at EnterpriseDB, leading the team that develops Advanced Server and coordinates the company's PostgreSQL contributions. Over a 16+ year career he has authored or coauthored high-impact PostgreSQL features such as unlogged tables, index-only scans, fast-path locking, and parallel query, and has shepherded major community work like partitioning and logical decoding. He blends hands-on systems programming and design with strategic leadership, regularly performing code reviews, commitfest management, and occasional coding across the core postgres repository. Based in Haddonfield, NJ, he brings deep experience from operations and product roles — from building monitoring and portal systems to capacity planning for telecoms — which informs his pragmatic approach to scalability and reliability. An interesting quirk: he created commitfest.postgresql.org and repeatedly optimizes the project's workflow as well as its internals, reflecting a passion for both developer productivity and database performance.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Computer Science, A.B. Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (5)
c1710
postgresql10
c1110
sql9
database-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
postgres/postgres
Dec 2009 - Jan 2023
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
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3042 commits in 13 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert appears to be a back-end developer contributing to the PostgreSQL database system, specifically focusing on the implementation of features within the FDW (Foreign Data Wrapper) framework. The contributions involve pushing down UPDATE/DELETE joins to remote servers for efficient foreign table modification and ensuring proper behavior during recovery. The user's work also includes code modifications and documentation improvements.
postgresql
EnterpriseDB/pg_catcheck
May 2014 - Jan 2022
Postgres Catalog Checker
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 13 pushes in 7 years 9 months
postgresql
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