Gavin M. Roy

CTO · Author · Speaker · Open Source Developer

Building distributed systems and developer tools. Writing code in Rust, Python, and Erlang. Currently leading technology at AWeber and lives in Washington, DC.

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About

I've spent over 30 years building distributed systems, from early internet infrastructure in the mid-90s to modern cloud-native architectures. My focus has been on messaging systems, databases, and the tools that make developers more productive.

As CTO at AWeber , I lead the technology organization while staying hands-on with architecture and open source contributions. I'm particularly interested in PostgreSQL tooling, event oriented architectures with RabbitMQ, and building reliable systems at scale.

RustPythonErlangPostgreSQLRabbitMQDistributed Systems

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RabbitMQ in Depth

Manning Publications

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Speaking

Featured talk · RabbitMQ Summit 2018

Idiomatic RabbitMQ

My opening keynote from the first RabbitMQ Summit: if you don't fully understand AMQP, you don't understand RabbitMQ. A tour of the protocol underneath — connections, channels, framing, and the message properties that make your architecture idiomatic.

Selected decks, most viewed first

01 Integrating PostgreSQL with RabbitMQ Most viewed 02 RabbitMQ, Event-Driven Architectures & Data Warehousing 03An Introduction to Tornado 04 Messaging Standards & Systems: AMQP & RabbitMQ 05 Become a Logging Expert in 30 Minutes

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My YouTube channel, where I go deeper on distributed systems, AI,
databases, and the trade-offs behind real-world architecture.

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Photography

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Featured Projects

pglifecycle

A PostgreSQL schema management tool for tracking and applying DDL changes. Version control for your database schema.

Rust

postgres-lsp

Language Server Protocol implementation for PostgreSQL and PL/pgSQL. Diagnostics, semantic highlighting, go-to-definition, and formatting.

Rust

pgfmt

A PostgreSQL-specific SQL formatter. Enforces consistent style across your SQL codebase with configurable formatting rules.

Rust

rabbitpy

A pure Python, thread-safe, minimalistic and Pythonic RabbitMQ client library for simple and reliable AMQP messaging.

Python

pamqp

Low level AMQP 0-9-1 frame encoding and decoding library. The foundation used by multiple Python AMQP client libraries.

Python

flatdict

Python module for interacting with nested dicts as a single level dict with delimited keys. Simplifies complex data structures.

Python

env-aws-params

Inject AWS SSM Parameters as environment variables. Simple secrets management for containerized applications.

Go

rejected

A consumer framework for RabbitMQ. Build robust message consumers with automatic reconnection and error handling.

Python

Currently listening to

Tool · Radiohead · Queens of the Stone Age · the Claypool Lennon Delirium