Robert Treat
Principal Database Engineer
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Treat is a Principal Database Engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience and a 20+ year tech career that ranges from first-line support to founding and selling a company. Now at AWS supporting the PostgreSQL ecosystem, he combines deep operational Postgres expertise with leadership experience as a former CEO, founder, and community organizer. He’s a long-time major contributor and liaison in the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, co-author of a Postgres book, and maintainer on widely used projects like phpPgAdmin. Comfortable at the intersection of product, community, and engineering, he has led database teams, built Postgres PAAS offerings, and guided open-source marketing and sponsorship efforts. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he’s equally familiar with scaling successes and the hard lessons of layoffs and exits, which informs his balanced approach to technical and business trade-offs.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Associate's degree at Corning Community College
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Github Skills (15)
php10
database-administration10
postgresql10
sql10
back-end-development10
git7
trigger6
database-design6
nosql6
redis6
database6
unicode6
phppgadmin6
rdbms6
fest5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
phppgadmin/phppgadmin
Mar 2015 - Nov 2020
the premier web-based administration tool for postgresql
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:4 releases, 25 commits, 72 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on maintaining and improving the phpPgAdmin project's core functionality. Their contributions included fixing grammar and spelling errors, refactoring OID handling, bumping the application's version, and adding support for newer PostgreSQL versions (13 and 14). The user also addressed a bug related to group membership when testing 'owned_only' access and improved the project's documentation.
djangoadministrationweb-basedphppostgresql
xzilla/phppgadmin
Jul 2008 - Nov 2019
the premier web-based administration tool for postgresql
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:120 commits, 15 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to phpPgAdmin by addressing multiple issues. They added a missing string for logging out and corrected SQL queries by using REQUEST rather than GET. Furthermore, they added features such as support for text search functions and an export option at the schema level. Additionally, they made style and grammatical fixes.
djangoadministrationweb-basedphppostgresql
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