About David Sterling

David Sterling is a PostgreSQL performance engineer and database architect with over 15 years of experience optimizing data infrastructure for high-scale production environments. Based in Houston, Texas, David specializes in helping organizations maximize the performance, reliability, and scalability of their PostgreSQL deployments.

His expertise spans the full PostgreSQL ecosystem, from query optimization and index tuning to advanced replication strategies and cloud infrastructure design. David has worked with Fortune 500 companies, fast-growing startups, and enterprise organizations across industries including financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, and SaaS.

At Postgres SQL HTX, David shares practical insights gained from real-world production deployments. His writing focuses on performance benchmarks, configuration patterns, and architectural best practices that help database administrators and engineers make informed decisions about their PostgreSQL infrastructure.

David is particularly passionate about emerging PostgreSQL features and their real-world performance implications. His recent work has focused on PostgreSQL 18’s asynchronous I/O capabilities, analyzing how this game-changing feature performs across different cloud providers, storage configurations, and workload patterns.

When he’s not optimizing databases, David contributes to the PostgreSQL community through conference talks, open-source contributions, and mentoring emerging database professionals.

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Speaking engagements on database performance and architecture

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Consulting available for production PostgreSQL optimization