Steve Shaw
Founder at HammerDB
Rushmoor, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Shaw is a founder and seasoned database performance engineer with over two decades of experience culminating in a 24-year tenure as Principal Engineer at Intel and earlier work as an Oracle DBA and Unix sysadmin. He created HammerDB, the industry-standard open source database benchmarking tool, and now leads its development and direction. Steve blends deep systems-level expertise with practical benchmarking and performance tuning across enterprise database platforms. His background in economics (BAEcon) and an MSc in Computing give him a rare mix of analytical rigor and technical depth. Based in Rushmoor, UK, he is known for translating complex performance problems into reproducible, community-driven tooling. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs long-term engineering stewardship with a hands-on approach to open source impact.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BAEcon (Hons), Economics, BAEcon (Hons), Economics at The University of ManchesterMSc, Computing, MSc, Computing at University of Bradford
Github Skills (28)
benchmark10
oltp10
postgresql10
mysql10
mariadb10
testing10
databases10
benchmarking10
db210
oracle10
sql10
hammerdb10
load-testing10
tpc10
database10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TPC-Council/HammerDB
May 2019 - Mar 2025
HammerDB Database Load Testing and Benchmarking Tool
Contributions:16 releases, 59 reviews, 187 PRs in 5 years 11 months
sqlserverbenchmarkingload-testingbenchmarkhammerdb
sm-shaw/mysqltcl
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
Mysqltcl allows to connect Mysql-Database from Tcl scripting language.
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
scriptingmysqltclsqlscripting-language
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