Shaun Thomas
Senior Software Engineer at pgEdge
Normal, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolShaun Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer and PostgreSQL specialist with roughly two decades of hands-on experience designing, tuning, and operating highly available Postgres clusters for finance, SaaS, and large-scale analytics. He’s an author, frequent conference speaker, and published Packt author of the PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook, known for turning multi-hour ETL pipelines into hour-scale jobs and cutting application timeouts by 99% through pragmatic query and architecture changes. Shaun blends deep operational expertise (DRBD/Pacemaker, Patroni, CloudNativePG, Barman) with developer education—creating internal training programs, tools like Elephant Herd, and community tutorials that demystify complex HA and upgrade strategies. Recently he’s been exploring Postgres’ role in RAG and vector search (pg_vector, pg_vectorize) and automating Postgres lifecycle on Kubernetes, demonstrating a knack for applying cutting-edge DB features to real product needs. Based in Normal, Illinois, he pairs a tinkerer’s curiosity (and too many cats) with a proven track record of consultancy for Fortune 500 clients and measurable production impact.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Special Studies (B.S.S.) Computer Science Mathematics Physics, Bachelor of Special Studies (B.S.S.) Computer Science Mathematics Physics at Cornell College
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Github Skills (115)
postgresql10
high-availability10
nagios10
failover10
database-management10
haproxy10
steroids10
logical-decoding10
repmgr10
architecture9
self-healing9
sql9
database9
diagramming9
edb9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
peak6/elephaas
May 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
bonesmoses/NagAconda
Apr 2011 - Mar 2022
Python Nagios Integration
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 years 1 month
nagiospython
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