Thang Pham
Senior Software Engineer at Waabi
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolThang Pham is a Senior Software Engineer based in Waterloo with eight years building backend and database-focused systems at startups and research teams. He has deep hands-on experience in serverless Postgres infrastructure—contributing to Neon by improving CLI tooling, timeline APIs, read-only node handling, and memory optimizations—which reflects strong systems design and database-internals skills. At Waabi he progressed from software engineer to senior engineer, applying that backend expertise to production-grade autonomous systems software. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate who lives by "Keep learning... It's never enough," he combines practical performance tuning with a curiosity for complex, scalable architectures.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 90/100, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 90/100 at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (12)
databases10
rust10
database-administration10
postgresql10
admin10
database10
cli9
backend9
serverless9
api8
apidoc8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Database Engineer
Back-end & Database EngineerContributions:118 reviews, 158 commits, 63 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Thang primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and database aspects of the Neon serverless Postgres project. Their work included implementing and refining features for the `pg list` CLI command, enhancing the handling of read-only nodes, and creating an initial timeline upon tenant creation. They also addressed bugs, optimized performance by reducing memory allocation, and added functionalities to support timeline-related APIs, thereby improving the system's overall performance and management capabilities. These contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of database internals and system design.
neonrustserverlessautoscalingoffer
aome510/resume
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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