Biography
Lane holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, 1990. He occasionally lectures at Carnegie Mellon University and other places.
In July 2000, Tom Lane was employed by Great Bridge, one of the first PostgreSQL support companies. However, the company was dissolved in September 2001 and Lane moved to Red Hat, a competitor of Great Bridge at the time, to develop their version of PostgreSQL called "Red Hat Database". The Red Hat Database project was later cancelled, but Lane continued to work there to develop PostgreSQL. In May 2013, Tom Lane moved to Salesforce.com to work on PostgreSQL. He is part of the PostgreSQL core team.
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