About
Bohan Zhang is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working on production database infrastructure. He co-authored “The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most” with Prof. Andy Pavlo at Carnegie Mellon University — cited in the PostgreSQL Wikipedia page. His writing focuses on large-scale systems engineering with PostgreSQL.
Articles in this wiki
| Title | Slug | Date read |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users | scaling-postgresql-openai | 2026-04-25 |
Key ideas associated with this author
PostgreSQL Scaling, Database Replication, MVCC trade-offs. His angle is pragmatic: push existing tools as far as they go before reaching for distributed complexity.