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Shine is a distinguished technology leader with over two decades of experience in software engineering and database innovation.
As the CTO at Synx Data Labs, Shine drives the development of cutting-edge distributed PostgreSQL solutions, championing innovation through agile methodologies.
Previously, Shine held pivotal roles at Broadcom and VMware, leading groundbreaking projects in Greenplum databases, enterprise data migration, and Kubernetes integration.
A former senior engineer at Microsoft, Shine made significant contributions to SQL Server advancements in data warehousing and XML query processing.

Beyond the tech realm, Shine is passionate about serving communities and enjoys biking along the scenic trails of North Dallas, Texas.

Shine Zhang has presented the following presentations

From Greenplum to Apache Cloudberry at Postgres Conference 2025
Your new choice for distributed analytic workloads with PG kernel

presented by Shine Zhang

If you are interested in using PostgreSQL kernel for analytics, come and join us! We are introducing Apache Cloudberry as a PostgreSQL variant to the community. It's designed based on PostgreSQL as kernel and aims to process distributed analytic workloads. Cloudberry adopts a MPP shared-nothing architecture fully integrated with PostgreSQL 14.4.

We added quite a few new features to make it ...

Thu 20 2025 Variants and Cloud