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Career · 9 min read
Oracle Let Me Go. Here's What 4 Years in RDBMS Engineering Taught Me.
I spent nearly four years working on Oracle RDBMS 23ai and 19c — on the engine itself. In April 2026, I was laid off. This is what I actually learned.May 9, 2026 →Follow the subject, not the feed.
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May 9, 2026MVCC: How Oracle and PostgreSQL Both Implement It — And Where They Diverge
Multi-Version Concurrency Control is in every serious database. But Oracle and PostgreSQL implement it in fundamentally different ways. Here's what I learned working on both.
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Women in Tech
May 9, 2026What It Was Actually Like Being a Woman in Oracle RDBMS Engineering
Four years inside Oracle Server Technologies Group — one of the more technically demanding engineering environments I know of. What it was actually like to be a woman there.
7 min read