Paul A. Jungwirth

PostgreSQL

• Core contributor since 2015: UUIDs for GiST indexes, multiranges, SQL:2011 application time.
• User since 2010: SQL, schema design, stored procedures, query optimization.
• Extension author: aggs_for_arrays, aggs_for_vecs, range_agg, inetrange, floatfile. Proprietary extensions for job queue, SNS integration, others.
• Administrator: Set up replication, failover, monitoring, backups, etc. on bare metal, cloud, and Kubernetes using CloudFormation, Terraform, Helm, Chef, Ansible, Bash, Prometheus. Author of Postgres Munin plugins.
• Consultant: hired to scale up to 8TB, optimize queries, redesign tables.
• Trainer: configuration tuning, indexes, memory usage.
• Speaker: Temporal Databases (2024–2019), Benchmarking Temporal Foreign Keys (2024), The Executor Phase (2023), A Strategy for Timezones (2016), Advanced SQL in ActiveRecord (2015).
• Author: Articles for Temporal Databases Bibliography, SQL:2011 Vendor Comparison, Logical Replication, Permissions, miscellaneous topics.
• Researcher: Published the only SQL implementations for temporal outer join, semijoin, antijoin, union, intersect, except, as well as the only temporal databases benchmark.

Python

• Frequently a daily developer since 2001.
• Experience with Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, numpy, pandas, spaCy.

Ruby & Rails

• Near-daily developer since 2010.
• Published gems: active_model_serializers_pg, topiary, db_leftovers, cron2english, others.
• Contributed to Rails core, devise, geocoder, jsonapi-resources, rein, fx, pg_audit_log, many other gems.

Other languages

• Javascript: 1998–present, including React, Angular, Vue, Node, Express, Typescript, TypeORM, Jest.
• C: 1993–present, on Linux, Solaris, Tru64, macOS, and Windows, sometimes for pay, mostly for Postgres these days.
• Java: 1997–present, daily for many years, now occasional. Spring, Android, Atlassian plugins, J2EE.
• Also used for real projects, maybe not that long ago: Go, Rust, C#, Objective C, Lua, R, Elixir, Perl, L^AT_EX, XSLT.
• Tried it, forgot it: Scheme, Prolog, Assembly (MIPS & x86), Swift, Pascal, Octave, C++, PHP, Visual Basic.

Devops

• Kubernetes: 2016–present, regularly.
• Terraform: 2018–present, regularly.
• Ansible: 2014–present, regularly.
• CloudFormation: 2013–present, rarely now.
• Chef: 2011–2020, pretty often when it was popular.

Other databases

• MySQL: 2001–present, pretty often
• MS SQL Server: 2018–present, sometimes with depth
• Redis: 2011–present, very often, occasionally with depth
• Mongo: 2011–present, sometimes
• InfluxDB: 2020–2021
• Oracle: 2001–2005

Illuminated Computing2006–present

• Ran my own consulting & freelance business, specializing in Rails, Postgres, and Kubernetes.
• Clients included State Street, Intel, Nike, U.S. DoD, HHMI, Puppet Labs, many startups.
• Industry experience in finance, health care, e-commerce, outer space, manufacturing, legal, tech startups.
• Engagements from weeks to many years.
• Duties ranged from soup-to-nuts full-stack web development, Rails/Django back-end development, Postgres specialist, devops specialist, team lead.

ElectNext2011–2012

• Founder and CTO.
• Used machine learning to match voters to down-ballot candidates.
• Led a team of 5. Accepted to DreamIt Ventures, Wharton VIP, Good Company.
• Helped raise over $100,000 in other angel investments.

Banta Integrated Media and Xyan.com2000–2005

• Tech lead & customer representative for several major clients.
• Python, Java, Perl, C, SQL, Javascript, Bash.

Delphic Software1994–1996

• Employee #1.
• Helped develop one of the Mac’s first web servers, OneSite, using C and C++.
• Helped build and support BBS extensions for SMTP, FTP, and Gopher.

Professional Development

• U.S. Security Clearance, DoD 8570 IAT-I.
• Network+ Certification (2021–2024).
• Coursera Machine Learning from Andrew Ng (2012).
• StackOverflow contributor with 24,777 reputation (as of August 2025).

University of Pennsylvania2007–2011

• ABD: Completed M.A. in Classical Studies, left to co-found startup.
• Taught Latin and Ancient Mythology.
• Robert A. Fox Presidential Prize Fellow.
• GRE: 800 verbal, 790 math, 5.5 writing.

Harvard Extension School & Summer School2001–2005, 1994

• Distributed Computing, Greek, Latin, other topics.

Willamette University1995–1999

• English major, Math minor.
• C.S. classes included Algorithms & Data Structures, Machine Organization, Programming Languages.
• National Merit Scholar.
• Phi Beta Kappa.
• Speech & debate team.
• Graduated magna cum laude.