From a young age I've been fascinated by music and programming. When I was 10, my father, a hobbyist programmer, showed me how to write simple programs in Pascal. I stayed up late coding programs in Pascal and then games in C.

I studied CS and Music at UT, and still live in Austin, enjoying its creative culture. In 2010 I joined Service Direct. I now lead the development team there, enjoying the challenges of solving problems, keeping the code-base clean, and helping us learn and create.

I discovered PostgreSQL years ago and fell in love with it. I use it for almost everything: tracking expenses, todos, and more. Postgres has also become the basis of my metaprogramming / "AI" escapades, letting me code at a higher level of abstraction and gain more traction in my experiments.

At work we mostly use MySQL, but Postgres exerts an inevitable pull...

Ryan Murphy presents 1 Event:

• Trees/Hierarchical Data in the SQL Database at PGConf Local: Austin [PgConf.US]