Bartunov Oleg Sergeyevich

Bartunov Oleg Sergeyevich

Oleg Bartunov is a researcher in the Department of Emission Stars and Galaxies, GAISH Moscow State University, developer of PostgreSQL since 1996, member of the PostgreSQL Foundation.

Biography

Born in Elista. Educated at the Physics Department of Moscow State University.

Since 1976 he has been working at the State Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University as a researcher. Founder of the astronomical site astronet.ru.

PostgreSQL developer (major contributor) since 1996, member of the PostgreSQL Foundation community.

The main interests in PostgreSQL: extensibility (GiST, GIN, SP-GiST), new data types, indexes.

Co-author of full-text search, storage for semi-structured data (hstore) and other extensions.

In 1999-2002, he worked at Rambler as deputy director of the R&D department.

2014

In 2015, he was one of the founders of Postgres Professional, in which he took over as^[1].

2022: TAdviser interview

Free software (open source, open source) is an important part of domestic information technologies. Oleg Bartunov, CEO of Postgres Professional, told TAdviser in November 2022 about how the Russian open source industry is being created and about the "Russian trace" in the global community of SPO . Read more here.

2023: Opening its own publishing house

In 2023, Oleg Bartunov, together with Postgres Professional co-owner Ivan Panchenko and writer, astrophysicist Elena Kirichek, founded the book publishing house Bumba"," focused primarily on children of preschool and school age. here More.

2024: TAdviser interview

Oleg Bartunov, CEO of Postgres Professional in July 2024 in an interview with TAdviser named five differences between a real DBMS developer. Read more here.

Hobbies

Volleyball, running, photography, yoga.

Marital status

Married

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