Claire Giordano leads open source community initiatives for Postgres at Microsoft—and serves on the Board of Directors for the Postgres Community Association non-profit (PGCA). She’s also the host of the Talking Postgres podcast. Before joining Microsoft through the acquisition of Citus Data, Claire was head of marketing at Citus. Claire has served in leadership roles in engineering, product management, and product marketing at Sun Microsystems, Amazon/A9, and Citus Data. At Sun, she led the engineering team behind Solaris Zones—and spearheaded the open sourcing of Solaris. Claire got her start in Providence, where she earned an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from Brown University.