Gavin is the CTO at myYearbook.com, which according to comScore, is one of the 25 most trafficked websites in the United States. He is actively involved in several open source communities and has been an open source evangelist for over 15 years. 

Gavin has been involved specifically with the PostgreSQL community as a user, contributor and evangelist for over 10 years. In his current role at myYearbook.com, he has been directly involved in the various methodologies used to scale PostgreSQL, meeting the demands of the rapid & large scale growth that the site has experienced.

In addition to his work at myYearbook.com, he is a board member for the GameSurge IRC Network, runs PrivatePaste.com and pathetic.org, an online poetry community, established in 1997.

Upcoming Talks

• PUG-IP: Building RESTful APIs with Tornado (June 2011)
• Surge 2011: Scaling RabbitMQ to 11 (September 2011)

Past Talks

• PyCon 2011: An Introduction to Tornado
• PhillyPug RedSnake Meeting January 2010: Concurrency in Python - Slides
• PhillyLambda December 2010: Tornado - Slides
• PhillyPug November 2010: An Introduction to Tornado - Slides
• Surge 2010: Scaling at myYearbook - Slides
• pgCon 2010: Perspectives on NoSQL (Keynote) - Slides
• pgEast 2010: PostgreSQL at myYearbook.com - Slides
• pgDay.EU 2009: Lightning Talk "PostgreSQL's Biggest Problem" - Slides
• pgDay.EU 2009: Scaling PostgreSQL Under Fire - Slides
• Open Source World 2009: Scaling Web Applications - Slides
• pgCon 2009: Golconde - Slides
• Highload 2008: myyearbook.com Architecture - Slides
• OSCON 2002: Enterprise SQL with PostgreSQL
• OSCON 2001: Using PostgreSQL in Web Applications