Grant McAlister is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services where he works on RDS - Amazon's Relational Database Service, the service he helped found 10 years ago. Prior to AWS, Grant was responsible for the performance, scalability and availability of Amazon's databases. Before joining Amazon.com in 1999, Grant worked as an Independent Database Consultant and as a Senior Principal Consultant for Oracle Corporation. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Alberta.

Grant McAlister presents 10 Events:

• Tuning PostgreSQL for High Write Workloads at PostgresConf US 2018

• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL - What's new and lessons learned at PGConf US 2015 [PgConf.US]

• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL - Deep Dive on New Features and Learnings at PGConf US 2016 [PgConf.US]

• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: What’s New and Lessons Learned at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

• Deep Dive into the RDS PostgreSQL Universe at PGConf Local: Austin [PgConf.US]

• HOT - UNDERSTANDING THIS IMPORTANT UPDATE OPTIMIZATION at Silicon Valley

• HOT - UNDERSTANDING THIS IMPORTANT UPDATE OPTIMIZATION at Postgres Conference

• Practical Memory Tuning for PostgreSQL at Postgres Conference 2020

• Deep dive on Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility at Postgres Conference 2020

• Full Page Writes in PostgreSQL - Critical, Evil or Both - Why you should care and how to optimize at Silicon Valley 2023