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.