Schedule - PGConf.dev 2026
Todd J. Green
T.J. Green is a Senior Staff Engineer at TigerData, where he is the implementor of pg_textsearch, a Postgres extension for high-performance BM25 ranked text search, and a contributor to pgvectorscale. He has over two decades of experience building database systems at companies including AWS (as Principal Engineer), Pinecone, RelationalAI, LogicBlox, Microsoft, and Xyleme, with expertise in query processing, indexing, and distributed systems. He has taught database systems at UC Davis and UC Berkeley. T.J. holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where his dissertation on query languages and data provenance won the Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award and received an honorable mention for the Jim Gray SIGMOD dissertation award.