Claire Giordano is head of the Postgres open source community initiatives at Microsoft. Prior to the Microsoft acquisition of Citus Data, Claire was VP of Marketing at Citus Data. Claire has served in leadership roles in engineering, product management, and product marketing at Citus Data, Sun Microsystems, and A9, an Amazon company. At Sun, Claire managed the engineering team that created Zones, and led the effort to open source Solaris. Claire’s work in tech started in Providence, where she earned an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from Brown University.