Thom Brown
PostgreSQL Consultant at Data Egret: а significant contributing sponsor of PostgreSQL
Crawley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThom Brown is a PostgreSQL consultant with 15+ years of experience helping organisations design, tune and recover mission-critical database systems. He combines deep hands-on skills in performance tuning, replication and automation with a background in support and product delivery from roles at EDB and EnterpriseDB, where he bridged engineering, QA and customer teams. Thom has operated at scale—managing multi‑petabyte PostgreSQL fleets at Adjust—and has a track record of formalising processes, documentation and technical knowledge bases to reduce incident mean time to resolution. An open‑source advocate and former Google Summer of Code administrator for the PostgreSQL project, he brings both community-facing experience and pragmatic Linux/Python tooling to complex operational challenges. Based in Crawley, England, he is notable for blending frontline crisis diagnosis with long-term product and training strategy.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Broadfield NorthEast Surrey College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
code-behind10
pgadmin10
testing9
postgresql9
replication8
sql8
json-query7
database6
psql6
postgresql-extension6
psycopg6
json6
amazon-rds6
mysql6
cgi6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
darkixion/pg_rep_test
Oct 2012 - Jun 2021
A tool to assist with setting up replication in PostgreSQL 9.1+ for the purposes of testing or demonstration.
Contributions:117 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 8 years 9 months
postgresqlreplicationtesting
darkixion/postgres_toolkit
Jun 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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