Experience

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contributor

  • Nov 2005 - Present

  Numerous contributions to the Postgres RDBMS project. See http://bit.ly/1q208OG or page 3 of my resume https://gurje.et/resume . Contributed new database features Discovered and fixed security-related bug Fixed bugs (race conditions, etc.) Reviewed others' patches/contributions



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • 2022 - Present



Supabase

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fellow Engineer

  • 2021 - 2022

  California, United States



GE Digital

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Software Engineer

  • May 2016 - Aug 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area Service Owner of the Postgres-as-a-Service and Blobstore projects at GE Digital's Predix Platform.



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Founding Engineer - Amazon Aurora Postgres

  • May 2015 - Apr 2016

  Palo Alto Founding team member of Amazon Aurora for Postgres. Developed, modified and integrated Postgres RDBMS' transaction logging system with Aurora. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/



Thales Cloud Security

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer, Database Specialist

  • Nov 2014 - May 2015

  San Jose Developed new Remote Management software for Thales' Hardware Security Modules (HSM), using NodeJS, HTML5, ExpressJS, and TypeScript. The product announcement: http://bit.ly/1MLB8kM Database migration of Thales keyAuthority Key Management Hardware product from 'undisclosed' database to 'undisclosed' database. See http://bit.ly/1O0e1Zz



EDB

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Database Architect

  • Feb 2011 - Oct 2014

  Greater Boston Area, MA Over the 8 years at EnterpriseDB, I worked as database-internals engineer of Postgres and EnterpriseDB databases, architected and developed critical components of Postgres Enterprise Manager and Postgres Plus Cloud Database products, and provided consulting, training, DBA, RemoteDBA, Migration and Solutions Architect services to the customers.

• Principal Systems Engineer

  • Feb 2010 - Mar 2011

• Lead Engineer

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2010

  Postgres internals development. Added features to Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Added Query Optimizer Hints, Index Adviser, and various other tidbits.

• Postgres Database Consultant

  • 2010 - 2010



EnterpriseDB

• Remote DBA

  • Mar 2009 - Jul 2009

  Helped Digital Sidebar. While on-site in Santa Monica, migrated the database from Oracle to Postgres Plus Advanced Server (EnterpriseDB), and gathered information and requirements about the application. Took several architectural decisions and implemented them. Acted as a Remote DBA providing regular support to the development team in various needs.

• Database Developer

  • Jan 2009 - Mar 2009

  Helped Redhat Inc. Project : Migration of Spacewalk to Postgres from Oracle. I worked as a Lead Database Developer from EnterpriseDB team, and was responsible for coming up with ways to port the Spacewalk project to use Postgres. I recommended all the changes to the table DDL statements, Packages, Procedures, Function and Objects.



EDB

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Overseeing DBA

  • Jun 2008 - Sep 2008

  Helped Vocalocity. Worked as a DBA on-site, gathering all the information, requirements, etc. Over the rest of the 3 months period spent time as an Overseeing DBA while another colleague worked as the RemoteDBA.

• Postgres Database Consultant

  • Nov 2007 - May 2008

  Helped Hi5. Worked as a Postgres consulting DBA. Developed, reviewed, and implemented Replication and Backup strategies. Conducted Architectural Health Check of the databases. Worked as a RemoteDBA to provide regular maintenance services.

• Remote DBA

  • 2008 - 2008

  Helped InMobi (formerly mKhoj)



Commvault

• United States
• Data Security Software Products
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2005 - Jul 2006

  QNet Server.



Oracle

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Member Technical Staff

  • Nov 2003 - May 2005

  Oracle RDBMS engine internals developer on Cost-based Query Optimizer (CBO).



Aztec

• United States
• Retail Office Equipment
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2003 - Nov 2003

  Developed Procedural Language support for Pervasive RDBMS.



Vaman Technologies Limited.(R & D)

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Junior Software Engineer

  • Dec 2001 - Sep 2003

  Extended Procedural Language for Vaman RDBMS.

• Junior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2001 - Nov 2001

  ODBC Driver development for Vaman RDBMS.

• QA Engineer

  • Jul 2001 - Sep 2001