Alvaro Herrera

PostgreSQL contributor and committer. Authored: autovacuum, background workers, BRIN indexes, commit timestamps, savepoints, shared row locking, some partitioning features. Co-authored: DDL-event triggers, MERGE, XMLTABLE, \crosstabview.
Solid sixteen years writing new PostgreSQL features, my code appears in all supported major releases and is used in millions of servers around the world.

Your database is corrupt? I can fix it.

Fixed CLUSTER, worked on savepoints, added shared row locking, added shared dependency tracking, integrated autovacuum into the backend, added background workers, invented BRIN indexes, implemented some table partitioning DDL, added libpq pipeline mode, got MERGE and REPACK across the finish line, and helps running the project online infrastructure