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Marco Slot
Principle Software Engineer, Snowflake
Professional Biography
Marco Slot is a Principal Software Engineer on the Postgres team at Snowflake. He previously led the development of Citus at Citus Data, which was later acquired by Microsoft, and in 2024 started working on Iceberg in Postgres at Crunchy Data, which was later acquired by Snowflake. Over the years, Marco co-created several widely used Postgres extensions, including Citus, pg_cron, pg_documentdb, and pg_lake.
Speaker Sessions
Upcoming sessions by Marco Slot
Evolving PostgreSQL through extensions
Postgres extensions are a significant driver behind the continued success of Postgres. When new workload requirements appear, extensions quickly follow to bring Postgres to the frontier. In this keynote, we'll look at how extensions have evolved over the years, how far they can bend Postgres, and why we're about to see a golden age of Postgres extensions.