Thomas Munro

Thomas co-developed PostgreSQL 18’s asynchronous I/O foundations, improving how the database overlaps storage work with execution. The project’s release notes credit this contribution alongside those of other engineers, providing concrete attribution for improvements in a widely deployed software component.

Thomas Munro is a PostgreSQL developer and committer at Microsoft based in Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on core database infrastructure, Thomas builds upstream enhancements that target parallelism, performance and portability, including the cross-platform interfaces required to support asynchronous input/output.

In PostgreSQL 18, Thomas co-developed the system's asynchronous I/O foundations alongside fellow engineers. This work improves how the database overlaps storage work with execution, strengthening a critical and widely deployed software component.