Henrietta Dombrovskaya (currently a Database Architect at DRW) is a database researcher and developer with 40 years of academic and industrial experience. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Her professional experience includes providing IT and Data services in the financial sector, manufacturing, distribution, education, and government. She authored, together with B. Novikov and A. Bailliekova, the book "PostgreSQL Query Optimization," Apress, 2024.
Henrietta is very active in the PostgreSQL community. Starting from January 2017, she has led the Chicago Postgres User Group, and she regularly talks at the PostgreSQL conferences. Her contributions to the community include the pg_bitemporal project, which supports two-dimensional time in PostgreSQL, postgres_air training database (the largest open-source PostgreSQL training database), and the NORM technology - the novel way of communications between applications and databases.