Charles is the Director of Product Management for Postgres at Microsoft, which includes the portfolio of Azure managed services as well as the contributions that Microsoft makes to open-source Postgres and Citus. Charles has worked on the gamut of different relational databases for the last 20 years—on-prem and in the cloud. In his current role, Charles is responsible for product definition and strategy, roadmap, customer experience, and overall success of Postgres investments at Microsoft.