Eshe Pickett
Cloud Software Development Engineer at Intel Corporation
Eshé Pickett is a Cloud Software Development Engineer on Intel Corporation's Cloud Ecosystem Engineering team, where she specializes in performance analysis and optimizations leveraging Intel Architecture. Since joining Intel in 2005, Eshé has evolved from IT infrastructure specialist to system software architect, focusing on cloud-native technologies across enterprise environments. Eshé's team actively contributes to the PostgreSQL open-source community, with upstreamed patches in PostgreSQL 17 and 18, and pending submissions in the PostgreSQL 19 commitfest. Her recent work focuses on hardware-accelerated database optimizations, particularly leveraging Intel SIMD instructions. She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University. Eshé's technical presentations have been featured at Intel's Design & Test Technology Conference and Software Professionals Conference. She was recognized in the Phoenix Business Journal's 40 Under 40 in 2017 and served on the Grace Hopper Conference leadership team from 2009-22.
Upcoming presentations
Intel® AVX-512 Accelerates PostgreSQL 18 CRC32C Checksums
Real-World Performance Gains and Cost Savings from Hardware-Accelerated Checksums
Abstract
PostgreSQL backup operations are critical for database reliability, but CRC32C checksum calculations create performance bottlenecks that scale with database size. This talk demonstrates how Intel AVX-512 vectorization in PostgreSQL 18's CRC32C implementation delivers measurable real-world performance improvements, reducing backup times by 11-14% with significant cost savings for ...
