Thomas Munro
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Munro is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently working at Microsoft on PostgreSQL and contributing to its core kernel and performance features. He has a deep systems and back-end engineering background from roles at EnterpriseDB, Bloomberg and IBM, with hands-on experience in memory management, table I/O, index management and concurrency fixes for high‑performance systems. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he combines enterprise-grade product experience—building order‑matching and large data processing systems for finance—with open-source stewardship on the widely used PostgreSQL project. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactoring that yields measurable performance gains and robustness under load. He also occasionally works on FreeBSD, reflecting a long-standing interest in low‑level OS and database internals.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Otago
English, French
Stackoverflow
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3questions
Github Skills (15)
c1710
memory-management10
databases10
postgresql10
c1110
database10
data-structure9
indexer9
indexing9
indices9
data-structures9
concurrency8
mapview6
colors6
r6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
postgres/postgres
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:753 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the core functionality of the PostgreSQL database. They were involved in implementing memory management optimizations, enhancing the performance of table I/O, and contributing to the code that handles index management. Their contributions included refactoring, improving data structure efficiency, and addressing concurrency issues within the database kernel. The user also added various performance checks.
postgresql
macdice/cfbot
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
Experimental commitfest machinery
Contributions:32 commits, 10 PRs, 208 pushes in 3 years
machinery
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