Hamid Akhtar

Principal Software Engineer
pgEdge

Hamid worked extensively on PostgreSQL for more than 12+ years now. As an architect and developer, he's working on multi-active solution with pgEdge, In the past, he's also worked on transparent data encryption, the observability extension (pg_stat_monitor), ORC FDW, and an auto-tuner for PostgreSQL. He has also managed the official PostgreSQL installers.

 

At pgEdge, Hamid contributes to developing the Spock extension, enabling active-active logical replication for PostgreSQL. Spock is a significant step towards providing conflict-free replicated data and exception logging.