Robert has been involved in the PostgreSQL project since 2008, first as a patch reviewer and committer and a later as a major developer. Prior to that, he was a PostgreSQL application developer for nearly ten years. Features he has worked on include incremental backup (16), backup compression, backup targets, and backup manifests (13-15), parallelism (9.4-11), the replacement of System V shared memory with anonymous shared memory (9.3), read and write scalability improvements (9.2), index-only scans (9.2), unlogged tables (9.1), and left join removal (9.0). He works at EnterpriseDB as VP, Chief Database Scientist.