Grant is the founder of Hornetlabs Technology, supporting Highgo Software, where he leads the PostgreSQL development team, collaborating across North America and China. He also serves as the Secretary of the International Consultant Committee for the PostgreSQL China Association and acts as the Organizer & Asia Liaison at PostgresConf.

Before founding Hornetlabs, Grant spent over a decade at Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia), gaining deep expertise in high availability, real-time telecommunications, database technologies, and Unix/Linux programming.

Under his leadership, the Highgo team also launched the IvorySQL product, an open-source database featuring Oracle compatibility built on PostgreSQL, now available at IvorySQL.org.

Grant Zhou presents 5 Events:

• PostgreSQL Practices in China at Postgres Conference

• Dialogue program at Beijing 2019

• IvorySQL - An Open Source Oracle-compatible Database Based on PostgreSQL at PostgresWorld Webinars 2022

• Serverless Postgres Study and Practice at Silicon Valley 2023

• Introducing SynchDB: Open-Source Synchronization Across Heterogeneous Databases with PostgreSQL at Seattle 2024