Schedule - PGDay Chicago 2023
Richard Yen
Company: Microsoft
Richard Yen is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with over 20 years of hands‑on experience operating PostgreSQL in production environments. He has worked across support, SRE, and engineering roles, helping organizations design, run, and recover large‑scale PostgreSQL systems.
Richard’s work focuses on reliability, observability, and disaster recovery—bridging the gap between PostgreSQL internals and real‑world operational practices. He is a frequent contributor to the PostgreSQL community through talks and writing, sharing lessons learned from incidents, outages, and long‑running production systems.