Claire Giordano is a PostgreSQL contributor who leads open source community efforts for Postgres at Microsoft and serves on the Board for the PGCA non-profit that protects the Postgres trademarks. Claire also hosts a monthly podcast called Talking Postgres. Before joining Microsoft via the Citus acquisition, Claire served in leadership roles in engineering, product management, and product marketing at Sun Microsystems, Amazon/A9, and Citus Data. At Sun, she led the engineering team behind Solaris Zones—and spearheaded the open sourcing of the Solaris operating system. Claire earned an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from Brown University.

Claire Giordano presents 2 Events:

• Beginner's Guide to Partitioning vs. Sharding in Postgres at PGConf India, 2025

• Ten Postgres Hacker Journeys—and what they teach us at PGConf India, 2026