Amit Kapila is a Committer and a Major Developer in PostgreSQL. Over the course of a 25-year career, he developed deep expertise in not only PostgreSQL but also Oracle and in-memory databases. He works at Fujitsu as a Senior Director.
He works on open-source PostgreSQL. He participates actively in the development of PostgreSQL, both developing and reviewing new features. The major work done by him in PostgreSQL includes his contributions to logical replication, parallel query, performance, scalability, and hash indexes. In the past, he has worked on integrating an in-memory storage Engine into PostgreSQL-based code, and at one time he also improved the Oracle performance by doing statement caching.