Rob Kiefer
Senior Software Engineer at TigerData (creators of TimescaleDB)
Rockaway, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Kiefer is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, specializing in database internals and time-series systems while based in Rockaway, New Jersey. At TigerData he has contributed deeply to TimescaleDB—implementing internal schemas, functions and triggers that shape the extension’s core behavior for high-performance real-time analytics. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Princeton and a BS from the University of Maryland, combining rigorous academic training with hands-on production engineering. Colleagues rely on him for careful, low-level design and schema work that keeps complex storage and retrieval machinery reliable under scale. Notably, his contributions focus less on surface features and more on the structural plumbing that enables efficient time-series workloads.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of MarylandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (7)
databases10
timescaledb10
database-administration10
postgresql10
sql10
database-design10
database10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
timescale/timescaledb
Oct 2016 - May 2019
A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:47 releases, 4 reviews, 255 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the internal workings of the TimescaleDB extension, focusing on the creation and modification of database schema elements and functions. Their work involved defining new schemas for internal use, modifying existing functions, and implementing triggers to manage database objects. They also worked on designing functions that are related to the core of database management. This includes tasks related to database structure and data organization.
postgresql-extensiontimeseries-databasetime-series-databasepostgresqltime-series
princeton-sns/serval
Jul 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:167 commits in 2 years 4 months
networknetworkingarchitecture
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